linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/281] 6.9.6-rc1 review

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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:53:18 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/281] 6.9.6-rc1 review

On 20.06.24 15:14, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 at 17:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 05:21:09PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 18:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>>> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.9.6 release.
>>>> There are 281 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 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:55:11 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.9.6-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-6.9.y
>>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> greg k-h
>>>
>>> There are two major issues on arm64 Juno-r2 on Linux stable-rc 6.9.6-rc1
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
>>>
>>> 1)
>>> The LTP controllers cgroup_fj_stress test cases causing kernel crash
>>> on arm64 Juno-r2 with
>>> compat mode testing with stable-rc 6.9 kernel.
>>>
>>> In the recent past I have reported this issues on Linux mainline.
>>>
>>> LTP: fork13: kernel panic on rk3399-rock-pi-4 running mainline 6.10.rc3
>>>    - https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYvKmr84WzTArmfaypKM9+=Aw0uXCtuUKHQKFCNMGJyOgQ@mail.gmail.com/
>>>
>>> it goes like this,
>>>    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>>>    ...
>>>    Insufficient stack space to handle exception!
>>>    end Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow
>>>

How is that related to 6.9.6-rc1? That report is from mainline (6.10.rc3).

Can you share a similar kernel dmesg output from  the issue on 6.9.6-rc1?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb