Re: [PATCH 3.14 00/18] 3.14.52-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 04:37:51PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:49:18PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.52 release.
> > There are 18 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 Sun Sep 13 22:46:12 UTC 2015.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> Compiled and booted on x86_32. dmesg showd:
> kmemleak: 47 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
> 
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak showed lots of:
> unreferenced object 0xf3204fb0 (size 1024):
>  comm "setfont", pid 326, jiffies 4294897405 (age 2079.568s)
>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 	a3 00 a0 25 92 25 b1 00 a2 00 a5 00 a9 00 ae 00 ...%.%..........
> 	c6 00 dd 00 e6 00 52 01 53 01 78 01 14 20 20 20  ......R.S.x..   
>  backtrace:
> 	[<c1637adc>] kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0xa0
> 	[<c116845f>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x9f/0x140
> 	[<c13d3caa>] set_inverse_trans_unicode.isra.0+0x10a/0x120
> 	[<c13d4672>] con_set_unimap+0x1b2/0x230
> 	[<c13cee27>] vt_ioctl+0x857/0x1020
> 	[<c13c40e3>] tty_ioctl+0x233/0xa40
> 	[<c1188e82>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e2/0x540
> 	[<c1189140>] SyS_ioctl+0x60/0x90
> 	[<c164f086>] sysenter_after_call+0x0/0x21
> 	[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> 
> 9e326f78713a ("tty/vt: don't set font mappings on vc not supporting this")
> solved the error for me. 9e326f78713a is marked for stable also and it
> will not apply cleanly.

So this isn't a new thing at all, can you provide a backport that worked
for you so I can queue it up for the next round?

thanks,

greg k-h