linux-kernel - Re: [4.4-stable 00/22] patches for 'randconfig'

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:18:22 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [4.4-stable 00/22] patches for 'randconfig'

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:54:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Like the earlier series of randconfig build fixes for 4.9, this is the
> equivalent for 4.4. Again, most of it is for harmless warnings, but there
> are also fixes for excessive stack consumption that can be possibly
> dangerous, and the 'genksyms' segfault fix is now needed to build the
> backported 'retpoline' support.
> 
> Please backport these 89 commits from mainline, and apply the 22 patches
> that needed manual changes.
> 
> 4000fbea945c ("isdn: icn: remove a #warning")
> f0bb2d50dfcc ("virtio_balloon: prevent uninitialized variable use")
> b115bebc07f2 ("gpio: xgene: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused")

You duplicated this commit your list, and in the patches afterward.  I
think the same thing happened for a few others, but not a problem.  I've
applied this long list, and the individual patches as well.  Many thanks
for this, hopefully we should have cleaner builds now.

greg k-h