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Bug#891249: linux: unstable kernel/data corruption on ppc64el



Hi again,
it looks that there was missing bit in some earlier patch included in 4.9
stable kernel : 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?h=linux-4.9.y&id=3146a32b39cd78722869bca6e839b3c59155e012

I tested with this single patch on top of 4.9.82-1+deb9u2 and I could do
some heavy linux compilation without issue.

The latest upstream 4.9.84 has that fix. 

F.

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:33:56 +0100, Frédéric Bonnard <frediz@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I got this as well, not immediatly though but adding some
> parallelization to the build helped. I'll look into this as well.
> 
> F.
> 
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:52:35 +0100, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> wrote:
> > Source: linux
> > Version: 4.9.82-1+deb9u2
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: causes serious data corruption
> > 
> > DSA has installed the latest security kernel (4.9.82-1+deb9u2) on the
> > Debian POWER8 machines running ppc64el. While they boot correctly, then
> > programs segfault randomly (apt, sbuild, systemd, etc...). Passing
> > no_rfi_flush to the command line does not change anything. Looking more
> > in details, things looks scarying as some code actually get wrongly
> > executed. Here are some build logs examples:
> > - https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-msgpack&arch=ppc64el&ver=0.5.1-1&stamp=1519399908&raw=0
> > - https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-msgpack&arch=ppc64el&ver=0.5.1-1&stamp=1519396907&raw=0
> > - https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=tk8.5&arch=ppc64el&ver=8.5.19-3&stamp=1519362938&raw=0
> > 
> > While in the above case the packages fail to build from source, I guess
> > there are also some cases of undetected corruptions.
> > 
> > I'll try to run the 4.9.80-2 kernel at some point to narrow down the
> > issue.
> > 
> > 

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