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Message-ID: <52e321d9-2695-4677-b8bf-4be99fc0d681@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:50:24 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/270] 5.10.238-rc1 review

On 6/2/25 09:49, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 6/2/25 06:44, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.238 release.
>> There are 270 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 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:42:20 +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/v5.x/stable-review/ 
>> patch-5.10.238-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-5.10.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
> 
> On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
> BMIPS_GENERIC:
> 
> Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
> 
> Similar build warning as reported for 5.4, due to the same commit:
> 
> commit b47e6abc7dc5772ecb45383d9956f9fcb7fdf33c
> Author: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@...il.com>
> Date:   Tue Apr 22 20:30:25 2025 +0900
> 
>      tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()
> 
>      commit f5178c41bb43444a6008150fe6094497135d07cb upstream.
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:15,
>                   from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:20,
>                   from ./arch/arm/include/asm/bug.h:60,
>                   from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
>                   from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
>                   from ./include/linux/mm.h:9,
>                   from ./include/linux/ring_buffer.h:5,
>                   from kernel/trace/trace.c:15:
> kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_splice_read_pipe':
> ./include/linux/minmax.h:20:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer 
> types lacks a cast
>     20 |         (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
>        |                                   ^~
> ./include/linux/minmax.h:26:18: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
>     26 |                 (__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y))
>        |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/minmax.h:36:31: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp'
>     36 |         __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \
>        |                               ^~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/minmax.h:45:25: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp'
>     45 | #define min(x, y)       __careful_cmp(x, y, <)
>        |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> kernel/trace/trace.c:6688:43: note: in expansion of macro 'min'
>   6688 | min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq),
>        |                                           ^~~
> 

And also this one:

commit e0a3a33cecd3ce2fde1de4ff0e223dc1db484a8d
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 13:05:50 2025 +0000

     tcp: bring back NUMA dispersion in inet_ehash_locks_alloc()

     [ Upstream commit f8ece40786c9342249aa0a1b55e148ee23b2a746 ]


on ARM64:

In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:15,
                  from ./include/linux/list.h:9,
                  from ./include/linux/module.h:12,
                  from net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:12:
net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c: In function 'inet_ehash_locks_alloc':
./include/linux/minmax.h:20:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer 
types lacks a cast
    20 |         (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
       |                                   ^~
./include/linux/minmax.h:26:18: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck'
    26 |                 (__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y))
       |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/minmax.h:36:31: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp'
    36 |         __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \
       |                               ^~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/minmax.h:52:25: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp'
    52 | #define max(x, y)       __careful_cmp(x, y, >)
       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:946:19: note: in expansion of macro 'max'
   946 |         nblocks = max(nblocks, num_online_nodes() * PAGE_SIZE / 
locksz);
       |                   ^~~


-- 
Florian