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

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Message-ID: <a2fc8b36-c512-b6dd-7349-dfb551e348b6@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 Jan 2020 09:33:19 -0800
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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>,
        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 1/3/20 7:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:45 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, according to
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-mainline-oe/tests/ltp-syscalls-tests/memfd_create04
> mainline has the same testcase failure, it started happening between
> v5.4-10135-gc3bfc5dd73c6 and v5.4-10271-g596cf45cbf6e, when the patch
> was originally merged into 5.5-rc1.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> No idea what to conclude from the testcase failure, let's see if Mike has
> any suggestions.
> 

Thanks for isolating to this patch!

There are dependencies between arch specific code and arch independent code
during the setup of hugetlb sizes/mounts.  Let me take a closer look at the
arm64 code and get access to a system for debug.

-- 
Mike Kravetz