Recent kernel anomalies

[karu.pruun]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 3:35 PM Daniel Bilik <ddb at neosystem.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:49:33 +0000
> Antonio Huete Jiménez <tuxillo at quantumachine.net> wrote:
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> > Would you mind pin pointing the commit that may be causing the problems?
> > You can use 'git bisect' for it.
>
> Done, bisect pointed me to commit c9f83a7+:
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> Author: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org>
> Date:   Mon Nov 5 22:15:18 2018 +0100
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>     drm/linux: Fix vmap()
>
>     Page protection information was not being used.
>
> Prior to this change, chromium is stable for me. This modification makes
> chromium to fall on various signals (seen 4, 6, 10 and 11). I guess the
> update causes memory corruption under some circumstancies, making the
> kernel to misbehave (which can possibly lead to a filesystem not being
> unmounted properly).

Can you specify what graphics hw are you using?

Peeter

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