The patch titled Subject: kernel/panic.c: do not append newline to the stack protector panic string has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was kernel-panic-do-not-append-newline-to-the-stack-protector-panic-string.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/panic.c: do not append newline to the stack protector panic string ... because panic() itself already does this. Otherwise you have line-broken trailer: [ 1.836965] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: pgd_alloc+0x29e/0x2a0 [ 1.836965] ]--- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008202901.7894-1-bp@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/panic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/panic.c~kernel-panic-do-not-append-newline-to-the-stack-protector-panic-string +++ a/kernel/panic.c @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ device_initcall(register_warn_debugfs); */ __visible void __stack_chk_fail(void) { - panic("stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: %pB\n", + panic("stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: %pB", __builtin_return_address(0)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__stack_chk_fail); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are