On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:57:56AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.106 release. > There are 29 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know. > > Responses should be made by Wed Jun 6 06:57:52 UTC 2018. > Anything received after that time might be too late. > For v4.9.105-30-ge0f8632 (4.9.106-rc1-00030-ge0f8632): Build results: total: 148 pass: 148 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 139 pass: 137 fail: 2 Failed tests: mips64:malta_defconfig:nosmp mips64:malta_defconfig:smp Qemu tests fail with: This architecture does not have kernel memory protection. random: fast init done Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a While tracking this down, I found commit 4e4636cf981b ("objtool: Enclose contents of unreachable() macro in a block"), which says "... Guenter Roeck reported a boot failure in mips64 ...". Go figure. Applying commit 4e4636cf981b on top of v4.9.106-rc1 indeed fixes the problem. Guenter