Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/95] 4.19.209-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 10/4/21 11:44 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 10:40 AM Naresh Kamboju
> <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 18:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.209 release.
> > > There are 95 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 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:50:17 +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-4.19.209-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
> >
> > Regression found on arm, arm64, i386 and x86.
> > following kernel crash reported on stable-rc linux-4.19.y.
>
> Stable teams should backport cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to
> be given NULL.
>
> f06bc03339ad4c1baa964a5f0606247ac1c3c50b
>
> Or they should have tweaked my patch before backporting it.
Seeing the same problem on my test system as well.

Patch applied with fuzz. Didn't need any tweaks. Compiling now.
Will let you know soon.

thanks,
-- Shuah