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

[shuah]

On 11/28/19 12:36 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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

Ran into this on my test system. I will try rc2.

thanks,
-- Shuah