linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/29] 4.9.106-stable review

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Message-ID: <20180604165756.GA2004@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 18:57:56 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/29] 4.9.106-stable review

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:16:49AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:57:56AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.106 release.
> > > There are 29 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 Wed Jun  6 06:57:52 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > 
> > For v4.9.105-30-ge0f8632 (4.9.106-rc1-00030-ge0f8632):
> > 
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 148 pass: 148 fail: 0
> > Qemu test results:
> > 	total: 139 pass: 137 fail: 2
> > Failed tests: 
> > 	mips64:malta_defconfig:nosmp
> > 	mips64:malta_defconfig:smp
> > 
> > Qemu tests fail with:
> > 
> > This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
> > random: fast init done
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a
> > 
> > ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a
> > 
> > While tracking this down, I found commit 4e4636cf981b ("objtool: Enclose
> > contents of unreachable() macro in a block"), which says "... Guenter Roeck
> > reported a boot failure in mips64 ...". Go figure. Applying commit
> > 4e4636cf981b on top of v4.9.106-rc1 indeed fixes the problem.
> > 
> 
> An additional note: It appears that neither 009615ab7fd4 ("USB: serial: cp210x:
> use tcflag_t to fix incompatible pointer type") nor 0fde7ad71ee3 ("sparc64: Fix
> build warnings with gcc 7") made it into v4.9.106-rc1, even though you mentioned
> that they did, or at least I think you did. What happened ?

I "switched" trees for 4.9 for this release.  Those patches are still in
a queue, but I wanted to have this release only be about the objtool
changes to make it easier to narrow down any potential issues.  I'll do
a new 4.9 release after this one with those patches in it.

thanks,

greg k-h