linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.6 000/167] 5.6.8-rc1 review

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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:57:15 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     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>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "X.f. Ren" <xiaofeng.ren@....com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Kuldeep Singh <kuldeep.singh@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.6 000/167] 5.6.8-rc1 review

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 14:38, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 23:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.6.8 release.
> > There are 167 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, 30 Apr 2020 18:20:42 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.6.8-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.6.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
>
> NOTE:
> This kernel panic seems to be platform specific.
> However, I am sharing a few kernel panic logs here.
> While running LTP cve[1] and  libhugetlbfs[2] test suite on nxp ls2088
> device the kernel panic noticed with different kernel dump
> and unfortunately it is not easily reproducible.
> At this point it is unclear whether this problem
> started happening from this stable rc review or not.
> Because a different type of kernel panic noticed on Linus 's  mainline tree
> (5.7.0-rc2) version kernel while running LTP containers tests.

As per the initial investigation these kernel panic (s) noticed from a
single machine out of five machines under test.

- Naresh