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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:44:50AM -0700, 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.

Thanks, I have now queued that up, it was not obvious that was a
prerequisite for your change :)

greg k-h