On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 11:37 -0300, Martin Galvan wrote: > Hi all, > > Was this included in a new release? I'm unaware of the release > schedule for 3.16, so perhaps it's still pending. Not yet. It should be released later this month. Ben. > Thanks! > > El dom., 15 mar. 2020 a las 17:36, Ben Hutchings > (<ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) escribió: > > On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 18:41 +0000, Pavel Tatashin wrote: > > > 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? > > > > I've queued this up, thanks. > > > > Ben. > > > > > 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. > > -- > > Ben Hutchings > > Humour is the best antidote to reality. > > > > -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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