linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/223] 6.12.25-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <2025042833-carefully-lapped-d05c@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:36:58 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/223] 6.12.25-rc1 review

On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 07:33:51PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 4/23/25 07:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.25 release.
> > There are 223 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, 25 Apr 2025 14:25:27 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> ...
> > Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> >      kbuild: Add '-fno-builtin-wcslen'
> > 
> 
> This patch was already in 6.12.24, and it is now twice in 6.12.y.
> 
> 3802df8552de kbuild: Add '-fno-builtin-wcslen'
> 9c03f6194e88 kbuild: Add '-fno-builtin-wcslen'
> 
> and
> 
> $ grep fno-builtin-wcslen Makefile
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-wcslen
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-wcslen
> 
> This is the second time this happened in the 6.12 series. The other sequence is
> 
> 61749c035911 Revert "vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls"
> 61ba518195d6 vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls
> a20fcaa230f7 vfio/platform: check the bounds of read/write syscalls
> 
> Would it be possible to avoid those duplicates ? It doesn't matter in
> the above cases, but we might not always be that lucky.

Sorry about that, it's not a normal thing, and yes, our scripts should
check it.  I'll work on adding it in the future, thanks.

greg k-h