linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.193-stable review

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Message-ID: <20190915125824.GA528036@kroah.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:58:24 +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, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.193-stable review

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 05:49:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 9/14/19 1:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:28:39AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 9/13/19 6:06 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.193 release.
> > > > There are 14 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 15 Sep 2019 01:03:32 PM UTC.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Is it really only me seeing this ?
> > > 
> > > drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function 'translate_desc':
> > > include/linux/compiler.h:549:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_1879' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)
> > > 
> > > i386:allyesconfig, mips:allmodconfig and others, everywhere including
> > > mainline. Culprit is commit a89db445fbd7f1 ("vhost: block speculation
> > > of translated descriptors").
> > 
> > Nope, I just got another report of this on 5.2.y.  Problem is also in
> > Linus's tree :(
> > 
> 
> Please apply upstream commit 0d4a3f2abbef ("Revert "vhost: block speculation
> of translated descriptors") to v4.9.y-queue and later to fix the build problems.
> Or maybe just drop the offending commit from the stable release queues.

I'm just going to drop the offending commit from everywhere and push out
new -rcs in a bit...

thanks,

greg k-h