linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/50] 3.18.64-stable review

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 21:11:53 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        shuahkh@....samsung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 00/50] 3.18.64-stable review

On 08/07/2017 12:34 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 12:11:19PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 08/05/2017 08:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 08:02:17AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 07:55:11AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:51:07PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:46:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:43:50PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 08/04/2017 04:15 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.64 release.
>>>>>>>>> There are 50 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 Aug  6 23:15:34 UTC 2017.
>>>>>>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Preliminary:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Lots of
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> lib/string.c:31:32: fatal error: asm/word-at-a-time.h
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> affecting several architectures.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> alpha:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> lib/string.c:217:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'zero_bytemask'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hm, I think I need to add c753bf34c94e ("word-at-a-time.h: support
>>>>>>> zero_bytemask() on alpha and tile"), right?  Any other arches failing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hm, that doesn't work, do we care about tile? :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me see how deep this hole is, I just wanted to get strscpy into 3.18
>>>>>> to fix a bug...
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect you'll need this one which came as part of the strscpy() series
>>>>> between 4.2 and 4.3 (though I have not tested) :
>>>>>
>>>>>     commit a6e2f029ae34f41adb6ae3812c32c5d326e1abd2
>>>>>     Author: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
>>>>>     Date:   Wed Apr 29 12:48:40 2015 -0400
>>>>>
>>>>>       Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
>>>>>       Added the x86 implementation of word-at-a-time to the
>>>>>       generic version, which previously only supported big-endian.
>>>>>       (...)
>>>>
>>>> OK I just applied it on top of 3.18.64-rc1 and it allowed me to build mips
>>>> which previously broke. It will not apply as-is, you'll need to drop the
>>>> change for arch/nios2/include/asm/Kbuild, and after that it's OK.
>>>
>>> Thanks for that, I've now queued that patch up.
>>>
>>
>> Better, but there are still some errors.
>>
>> powerpc:
>> lib/string.c: In function 'strscpy':
>> lib/string.c:217:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'zero_bytemask'
>>
>> tile:
>> arch/tile/gxio/mpipe.c:46:15: error: conflicting types for 'strscpy'
>> include/linux/string.h:29:22: note: previous declaration of 'strscpy' was here
>>
>> Missing patches:
>>
>> 7a5692e6e533 ("arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian")
>> 30059d494a72 ("tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy")
> 
> Thanks for these, I'll queue them up.  And do a -rc2 in a few days as
> this was a mess...
> 

Getting there. With v3.18.63-62-gc7d9ae0:

Build results:
	total: 136 pass: 136 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 111 pass: 111 fail: 0

Details are available at http://kerneltests.org/builders.

Guenter