linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/191] 5.4.8-stable review

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Date:   Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:45:18 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, patches@...nelci.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@...ernel.net>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, LTP List <ltp@...ts.linux.it>,
        Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/191] 5.4.8-stable review

On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 04:29:56PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 03:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > -ENOENT is what you get when hugetlbfs is not mounted, so this hints to
> >
> > 8fc312b32b2  mm/hugetlbfs: fix error handling when setting up mounts
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.4.y&id=3f549fb42a39bea3b29c0fc12afee53c4a01bec9
> 
> I see that Mike Kravetz suggested not putting this patch into stable in
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/befca227-cb8a-8f47-617d-e3bf9972bfec@oracle.com/
> 
> but it was picked through the autosel mechanism later.

So does that mean that Linus's tree shows this LTP failure as well?

This does seem to fix a real issue, as shown by the LTP test noticing
it, so should the error code value be fixed in Linus's tree?

thanks,

greg k-h