linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/28] 6.1.10-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYtN=0nMkkUE7FAFutK5jLS--fr_ZcrJw0nb5BhMqQoZUA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2023 19:42:39 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        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, srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/28] 6.1.10-rc1 review

On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 01:21, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Naresh,
>
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 12:55:10PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 15:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.10 release.
> > > There are 28 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, 05 Feb 2023 10:09:58 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.10-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-6.1.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.
> >
> > Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> >
> > NOTE:
> >
> > clang-nightly-allmodconfig - Failed
> >
> > Build error:
> > -----------
> >   include/linux/fortify-string.h:430:4: error: call to '__write_overflow_field'
> >    declared with 'warning' attribute: detected write beyond size of field
> >    (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror,-Wattribute-warning]
> >
> > This is already reported upstream,
> > https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/63d0c141.050a0220.c848b.4e93@mx.google.com/
>
> I think you copied the wrong warning, as the one upstream is a write
> warning, whereas the one I see in your build logs is a read error:

You are right !
Thanks for checking build logs.

>
> In file included from /builds/linux/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:9:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/completion.h:12:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/swait.h:7:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/spinlock.h:56:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/preempt.h:78:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/thread_info.h:60:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:53:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:5:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:22:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11:
> In file included from /builds/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/cpumask.h:12:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/bitmap.h:11:
> In file included from /builds/linux/include/linux/string.h:253:
> /builds/linux/include/linux/fortify-string.h:543:4: error: call to '__read_overflow' declared with 'error' attribute: detected read beyond size of object (1st parameter)
>                         __read_overflow();
>                         ^
>
> Regardless, this is still a clang bug that we are actively investigating, so it
> can still be safely ignored by the kernel folks.
>
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1687

Thank you.

> Cheers,
> Nathan

- Naresh