linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/96] 4.9.163-stable review

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:58:39 -0700
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 00/96] 4.9.163-stable review

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 08:14:29AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 07:44:34AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.163 release.
> > > There are 96 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 Thu Mar 14 17:10:06 UTC 2019.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > 
> > Early results:
> > 
> > Building x86_64:tools/perf ... failed
> > --------------
> > Error log:
> > Warning: arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h differs from kernel
> > Warning: arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h differs from kernel
> >   PERF_VERSION = 4.9.162.g605129
> > builtin-trace.c: In function ‘perf_evlist__add_vfs_getname’:
> > builtin-trace.c:2071:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘strstarts’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > builtin-trace.c:2071:3: error: nested extern declaration of ‘strstarts’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
> > 
> > Also affects v4.4.y-queue.
> 
> Hm, at first I was worried about my backport, but if it hit 4.4 as well,
> that's not my fault :)
> 
> I'll look at this after breakfast, thanks!

I can't even get perf to build without any stable queue patches for
4.9.y at the moment, nor for 4.4.y, so something is odd, or I just have
too "new" of a system.  Let me go dig up a debian box to see if I can at
least find a way to start to reproduce this...

greg k-h