Bug#902773: nvidia-driver: Kernel BUG on 4.16.16 with 390.67-1, crashes on desktop boot

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: forcemerge 901919 -1

On Sat, 2018-06-30 at 13:40 -0500, Jonathon Anderson wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 390.67-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This issue has been reported before (#900248 and related), but the
> issue still persists, so I am opening another report.
> 
> Boot using Linux 4.16.16 (latest in sid) with the current version of
> nvidia-driver (latest in sid) causes a blank screen near the stage
> when lightdm would start, and a kernel BUG report is written to
> syslog. I can also confirm that kernel 4.9.88 (from stretch) does
> boot properly and the driver appears fully usable (I've been using
> that version for the time being).
> 
> Since I am reporting from a second boot, the relavent syslog entries
> are included below.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Jonathon

As already mentioned in all other duplicates and in the NEWS entry, add
the following to the kernel command line:

slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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