linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/75] 4.14.5-stable review

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Date:   Sat, 9 Dec 2017 03:34:24 +0000
From:   Ivan Kozik <ivan@...ios.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/75] 4.14.5-stable review

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.5 release.
> There are 75 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 Sat Dec  9 13:07:57 UTC 2017.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

I saw no problems on 8 of 9 machines, but the last one had a problem
because it used NVIDIA drivers (387); DKMS reported:

FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only
symbol 'ex_handler_refcount'
//usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-11-common/scripts/Makefile.modpost:92:
recipe for target '__modpost' failed
make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

The drivers built fine after rebuilding Linux with [PATCH]
locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/1110

which appears to be in Linus' tree as b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f

Thanks,

Ivan