Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/306] 4.19.87-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Nov 28 2019 - 02:38:10 EST


On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:23:41PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 02:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.87 release.
> > There are 306 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:18:09 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.87-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Kernel BUG noticed on x86_64 device while booting 4.19.87-rc1 kernel.
>
> The problematic patch is,
>
> > Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
>
> And this kernel panic is been fixed by below patch,
>
> commit 48a322b6f9965b2f1e4ce81af972f0e287b07ed0
> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Nov 20 19:19:07 2019 -0800
>
> net-sysfs: fix netdev_queue_add_kobject() breakage
>
> kobject_put() should only be called in error path.
>
> Fixes: b8eb718348b8 ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in
> rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Now queued up, I'll push out -rc2 versions with this fix.

greg k-h