Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jan 05 2018 - 09:58:38 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:38:23PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>
> When I start 4.4.110-rc1 on a virtual machine (qemu) init throws a
> segfault and the kernel panics (attempted to kill init).
> The VM host is a Haswell system.
>
> The same kernel binary boots fine on a (other) Haswell system.
>
> I tried:
>
> 4.4.110-rc1 broken
> 4.4.109 ok
> 4.9.75-rc1 ok
>
> All systems are OpenSuSE 42.3 64bit.
>
> qemu is started only with:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -enable-kvm -drive
> file=tvsuse,format=raw,if=none,id=virtdisk0 -device
> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,drive=virtdisk0
>
> Am I the only one who sees this? Has anyone booted that kernel on qemu?

I've now released 4.4.110, which had 4 more patches on top of what
4.4.109-rc1 had in it, that should hopefully resolve these issues.

Can you test that and let me know if you still have problems?

thanks,

greg k-h