This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kernel/panic.c: add missing \n 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: kernel-panic.c-add-missing-n.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 foo@baz Mon Jul 3 13:22:16 CEST 2017 From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:29 -0800 Subject: kernel/panic.c: add missing \n From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ff7a28a074ccbea999dadbb58c46212cf90984c6 ] When a system panics, the "Rebooting in X seconds.." message is never printed because it lacks a new line. Fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119114751.2724-1-jslaby@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/panic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) * Delay timeout seconds before rebooting the machine. * We can't use the "normal" timers since we just panicked. */ - pr_emerg("Rebooting in %d seconds..", panic_timeout); + pr_emerg("Rebooting in %d seconds..\n", panic_timeout); for (i = 0; i < panic_timeout * 1000; i += PANIC_TIMER_STEP) { touch_nmi_watchdog(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/kernel-panic.c-add-missing-n.patch