[dm-devel] Next-20151009 - crash during boot

[Mike Snitzer]

On Mon, Oct 12 2015 at  5:50pm -0400,
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> Next-20151009 crashes early in boot (right after I feed cryptsetup
> the passphrase for my root filesystem).
> 
> (Yes, the kernel is 10 commits past linux-next - they're all cleanup patches for
> drivers/staging that shouldn't enter into it)
> 
> It appears to possibly be the same one reported by the "Linux Test Robot",
> which called this out:
> 
> commit e817ef9b89e5bbfdb2a67ca9896909f414b2af91 ("dm ioctl: use kvfree() in free_params()")

Yes, that commit was dropped last week.  Today's linux-next won't have
this problem.  Feel free to revert e817ef9b89e5bbfdb2a67ca9896909 from
your local tree to work-around this.