linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.4 00/28] 6.4.1-rc1 review

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:52:05 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     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,
        conor@...nel.org, linux-parisc <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        Jason Wang <wangborong@...rlc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.4 00/28] 6.4.1-rc1 review

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:00:51AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 00:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.4.1 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 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:41:39 +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-6.4.1-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-6.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> 
> Following build regression noticed on Linux stable-rc 6.4 and also noticed on
> Linux mainline master.
> 
> Regressions found on Parisc and Sparc build failed:
>  - build/gcc-11-defconfig
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> 
> Parisc Build log:
> =============
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c: In function 'do_page_fault':
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: error: 'prev' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
>   292 |                 if (!prev || !(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
>       |                      ^~~~
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: note: each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once for each function it appears in
> 
> 
> sparc Build log:
> ===========
> <stdin>:1519:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c: In function 'force_user_fault':
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:315:49: error: 'regs' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
>   315 |         vma = lock_mm_and_find_vma(mm, address, regs);
>       |                                                 ^~~~
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:315:49: note: each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once for each function it appears in
> 
> 
> Links:
>  - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959811/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/details/
>  - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959811/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/log
> 
>  - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959890/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/details/
>  - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959890/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/log
> 
> 
> Both build failures noticed on mainline and sparc build have been
> fixed yesterday.
>  - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-mainline-master/build/v6.4-8542-g82a2a5105589/testrun/17963192/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/history/
> 
> 
> Following patch that got fixed
> ---
> >From 0b26eadbf200abf6c97c6d870286c73219cdac65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:41:24 -0700
> Subject: sparc32: fix lock_mm_and_find_vma() conversion
> 
> The sparc32 conversion to lock_mm_and_find_vma() in commit a050ba1e7422
> ("mm/fault: convert remaining simple cases to lock_mm_and_find_vma()")
> missed the fact that we didn't actually have a 'regs' pointer available
> in the 'force_user_fault()' case.
> 
> It's there in the regular page fault path ("do_sparc_fault()"), but not
> the window underflow/overflow paths.
> 
> Which is all fine - we can just pass in a NULL pointer.  The register
> state is only used to avoid deadlock with kernel faults, which is not
> the case for any of these register window faults.
> 
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Fixes: a050ba1e7422 ("mm/fault: convert remaining simple cases to
> lock_mm_and_find_vma()")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

Thanks!  That saves me having to dig.  I'll go push out updates with
this in them...

greg k-h