Hi Ben, I have tested and it cherry-picks cleanly on 3.16. I do not see any issues with backporting it to 3.16. Do you want me to send a patch for review, or can you just cherry-pick 7ec5d87df34a to 3.16? Thank you, Pasha On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:09 AM Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been running some tests on Debian 8 (which uses a 3.16.XX > kernel), and saw that my system would occasionally reboot when > performing an EFI variables dump. I did some digging and saw that this > problem first appeared in 4.4.110 and was fixed by Pavel Tatashin in > commit 7ec5d87df34a. At the same time, 4.9.XX, 4.14.XX and mainline > have commit 67a9108ed431, which also solves the issue. However, the > 3.16 stable line doesn't seem to have either fix, and therefore the > crash is still there. > > I don't know whether any distros use 3.16 other than Debian, but it'd > still be good to have this fix backported as well.
