linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/177] 5.8.10-rc1 review

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Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:54:24 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        pavel@...x.de, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/177] 5.8.10-rc1 review

On 9/15/20 3:06 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 9/15/20 8:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.10 release.
>> There are 177 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, 17 Sep 2020 14:06:12 +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-5.8.10-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-5.8.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
> 
> Compiled and booted fine. wifi died:
> 
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not init core (-110)
> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)
> 
> This is regression from 5.8.9 and 5.9-rc5 works just fine.
> 
> I will try to bisect later this evening to see if I can isolate the
> commit.
>

The following commit is what caused ath10k_pci driver problem
that killed wifi.

Prateek Sood <prsood@...eaurora.org>
     firmware_loader: fix memory leak for paged buffer

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.8.y&id=ec0a59266c9c9f46037efd3dcc0323973e102271

thanks,
-- Shuah