linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/50] 5.4.40-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <362df33a-e663-115b-b2c2-b559a3691b5c@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 10:51:29 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        shuah <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        patches@...nelci.org, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/50] 5.4.40-rc1 review

On 5/11/20 10:21 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:35 -0600, shuah wrote:
>> On 5/8/20 6:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.40 release.
>>> There are 50 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, 10 May 2020 12:29:44 +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-5.4.40-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-5.4.y
>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>
>> Compiled and booted on my test system. I am seeing the following
>> regression in dmesg and with a new emergency message.
>>
>> Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed
>>
>> I don't know why yet. I will debug and let you know.
> 
> At a guess: you upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and the default initramfs
> compression changed to lz4.  Or something like that.
> 

Sounds like a reasonable guess. I looked into the 4.9.y changes since
v4.9.222, and nothing in there even remotely points to an initramfs
related change.

Guenter