Re: Current Linus tree protection fault in __kmalloc

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 03 2020 - 09:13:17 EST


On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:08:19AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:37:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > My git bisect is just done, and it points to the following commit:
> >
> > commit 987f028b8637cfa7658aa456ae73f8f21a7a7f6f
> > Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Jan 20 17:53:26 2020 -0600
> >
> > char: hpet: Use flexible-array member
> >
> > I have double checked the commit, and looks it is really the 1st bad one.
>
> Looks like this patch will fix it then:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202001300450.00U4ocvS083098@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Yes, sorry, I will push this to Linus today, hopefully he picks it up
soon, lots of people are hitting this...

greg k-h