This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled modules: fix modparam async_probe request to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 16:55:26 +1030 Subject: modules: fix modparam async_probe request From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> commit 4355efbd80482a961cae849281a8ef866e53d55c upstream. Commit f2411da746985 ("driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe support") added async probe support, in two forms: * in-kernel driver specification annotation * generic async_probe module parameter (modprobe foo async_probe) To support the generic kernel parameter parse_args() was extended via commit ecc8617053e0 ("module: add extra argument for parse_params() callback") however commit failed to f2411da746985 failed to add the required argument. This causes a crash then whenever async_probe generic module parameter is used. This was overlooked when the form in which in-kernel async probe support was reworked a bit... Fix this as originally intended. Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [minimized] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3515,7 +3515,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info /* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */ after_dashes = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp, - -32768, 32767, NULL, + -32768, 32767, mod, unknown_module_param_cb); if (IS_ERR(after_dashes)) { err = PTR_ERR(after_dashes); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mcgrof@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-handle-the-caching-of-4-byte-nocache-copies-properly-in-__copy_user_nocache.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-fix-vmalloc_fault-to-handle-large-pages-properly.patch queue-4.4/modules-fix-modparam-async_probe-request.patch queue-4.4/x86-uaccess-64-make-the-__copy_user_nocache-assembly-code-more-readable.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html