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

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Message-ID: <8f402489-c8e8-38b2-88d1-d5eafe491492@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:09:24 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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 9/15/19 5:58 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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...
> 

A quick rebuild of previously failed builds now passes, so looks like we are good.

Guenter