From: Lucas Wei <lucaswei@xxxxxxxxxx> For kernel releases older than 4.20, using the SLUB alloctor will cause this alignment check to fail as that allocator did NOT align kmalloc allocations on a PAGE_SIZE boundry. Remove the check for these older kernels as it is a false-positive and causes problems on many devices. Signed-off-by: Lucas Wei <lucaswei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/sysfs/file.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -565,8 +565,7 @@ int sysfs_emit(char *buf, const char *fm va_list args; int len; - if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf), - "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf)) + if (WARN(!buf, "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf)) return 0; va_start(args, fmt); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucaswei@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/fs-sysfs_emit-remove-page_size-alignment-check.patch