5.8-rc1 and later breaks chrome browser

From: Steve French
Date: Sat Jul 04 2020 - 16:29:29 EST


I noticed that chrome crashes immediately on startup on my desktop
booting to 5.8-rc2 or later kernels (whether I build the kernel or
using the prebuilt weekly Ubuntu mainline kernel downloads). Works
fine with default kernels or 5.7 or 5.7.7 stable kernel etc. - just
breaks if I boot 5.8-rc2 or later. I even tried building with today's
mainline kernel and same thing. Any ideas how to work around this.

Message logged to dmesg is:

[ 131.366543] ThreadPoolServi[2526]: segfault at 415048 ip
00005652def3370d sp 00007fcdc3b37df0 error 6 in
chrome[5652daa7e000+785b000]
[ 131.366546] Code: Bad RIP value.

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Thanks,

Steve