linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/320] 5.4.174-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYsvgQyUNBnySuiOrAXRrh4_ZAnqygZ0A5y7pGO5vrXAYA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:49:42 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org,
        patches@...nelci.org, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de,
        jonathanh@...dia.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/320] 5.4.174-rc1 review

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 05:10, Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> On 1/24/22 12:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.174 release.
> > There are 320 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 Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:39:11 +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-5.4.174-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
>


Regressions detected on arm, arm64, i386, x86, parisc.
There are two build breaks,

This is on Perf on arm, arm64, i386, x86:

>
>    libbpf.c: In function 'bpf_object__elf_collect':
>    libbpf.c:1581:31: error: i nvalid type argument of '->' (have 'GElf_Shdr' {aka 'Elf64_Shdr'})
>     1581 |                         if (sh->sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
>          |                               ^~
>    libbpf.c:1585:31: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'GElf_Shdr' {aka 'Elf64_Shdr'})
>     1585 |                         if (sh->sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
>          |                               ^~
>    make[4]: *** [/builds/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: /home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/staticobjs/libbpf.o] Error 1

This is due to,
commit b98ad671ae465a1a4f76d1438b97cd8172e0ce14
libbpf: Validate that .BTF and .BTF.ext sections contain data
        [ Upstream commit 62554d52e71797eefa3fc15b54008038837bb2d4 ]


This is from PA-RISC with gcc-8, gcc-9, gcc-10, gcc-11:

>    /builds/linux/drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c: In function 'sba_io_pdir_entry':
>    /builds/linux/arch/parisc/include/asm/special_insns.h:11:3: error: expected ':' or ')' before 'ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY'
>       ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY(8b, 9b) \
>       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>

Bisection of the latter points to "parisc: Fix lpa and lpa_user defines".

commit 73c8c7ecdc141c20c9dbc8f3ec176e233942b0d9
parisc: Fix lpa and lpa_user defines
    [ commit db19c6f1a2a353cc8dec35b4789733a3cf6e2838 upstream ]

>
> Greetings!
>
> Daniel Díaz
> daniel.diaz@...aro.org