linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/222] 6.9.8-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYtuiiV0FDFoSZOaKQbKiQYw+SphhWZDjK8R-bH7dBfs5w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 23:21:47 +0530
From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org, 
	patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, shuah <shuah@...nel.org>, patches@...nelci.org, 
	lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>, 
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	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>, srw@...dewatkins.net, rwarsow@....de, 
	Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, Allen <allen.lkml@...il.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, 
	linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, 
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>, 
	Can Guo <quic_cang@...cinc.com>, Ziqi Chen <quic_ziqichen@...cinc.com>, 
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.9 000/222] 6.9.8-rc1 review

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 14:55, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, at 11:08, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 22:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.9.8 release.
> >> There are 222 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, 04 Jul 2024 17:01:55 +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-6.9.8-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
> >>
> >
> > The following kernel warning was noticed on arm64 Qualcomm db845c device while
> > booting stable-rc 6.9.8-rc1.
> >
> > This is not always a reproducible warning.
>
> I see that commit 77691af484e2 ("scsi: ufs: core: Quiesce request
> queues before checking pending cmds") got backported, and
> this adds direct calls to the function that warns, so this
> is my first suspicion without having done a detailed analysis.
>
> Adding everyone from that commit to Cc.
>
> Naresh, could you try reverting that commit?

I have reverted the above patch and boot tested and it works.
Since the reported problem is not easy to reproduce It is hard
to  confirm that the issue has been fixed.

However, I have submitted jobs with and without the patch and
running tests in a loop.

>
>       Arnd

- Naresh