This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled parisc: Fix system shutdown halt to the 4.10-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: parisc-fix-system-shutdown-halt.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 73580dac7618e4bcd21679f553cf3c97323fec46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:13:27 +0100 Subject: parisc: Fix system shutdown halt From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> commit 73580dac7618e4bcd21679f553cf3c97323fec46 upstream. On those parisc machines which don't provide a software power off function, the system currently kills the init process at the end of a shutdown and unexpectedly restarts insteads of halting. Fix it by adding a loop which will not return. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void machine_power_off(void) printk(KERN_EMERG "System shut down completed.\n" "Please power this system off now."); + + for (;;); } void (*pm_power_off)(void) = machine_power_off; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from deller@xxxxxx are queue-4.10/parisc-fix-system-shutdown-halt.patch queue-4.10/parisc-optimize-flush_kernel_vmap_range-and-invalidate_kernel_vmap_range.patch queue-4.10/parisc-support-r_parisc_secrel32-relocation-in-modules.patch