linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/48] 3.4.66-stable review

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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:16:09 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 00/48] 3.4.66-stable review

On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 14:56 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:36:07PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.66 release.
> > There are 48 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 Sun Oct 13 19:35:35 UTC 2013.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.66-rc1.gz
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> Less than perfect test results:
> 	total: 103 pass: 83 skipped: 10 fail: 10
> 
> New failures appear to be due to:
> 	'powerpc: Restore registers on error exit from csum_partial_copy_generic()'.
> which causes six of the powerpc builds to fail.
> 
> qemu tests all pass.

I just hit this with 3.2 and I think (not yet verified) that this patch
can be backported by changing STK_REG(R14) etc. to STK_REG(r14)
(lower-case 'r').  The register ID macros were changed in Linux 3.6 so
anything earlier would need that change.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
                   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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