Control: reassign -1 nvidia-driver 390.48-3 Control: forcemerge 901919 -1 On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 11:02:37 +0200 Fabian <fkonline_b...@gmx.info> wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.16.16-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > starting X via 'startx' causes every screen to stay black, no more > interaction with mouse or keyboards is possible. So I connected via ssh > and tried to execute 'systemctl reboot'. Only the ssh connection was > closed but the system stayed running without any interaction. > After a reboot I looked again via ssh what dmesg prints out. > It said "usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB > object 'nvidia_stack_cache' (offset: 11440, size 3)!", followed by the > message mentioned in the subject. > Therefore the system is not usable with X in this configuration. > > nvidia-driver is in version 390.67-1
Version 390.67-1 shipped a NEWS entry telling you what to do - add this to the kernel cmdline: slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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