linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.15 000/780] 6.15.3-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <79673bf1-1ee7-4c42-8134-ca6ead0a36ac@hardfalcon.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:09:42 +0200
From: Pascal Ernster <git@...dfalcon.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@....de>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
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 "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@...nel.org>,
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 Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.15 000/780] 6.15.3-rc1 review

[2025-06-19 06:17] Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 10:31:43PM +0200, Pascal Ernster wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>>
>> I've sent this email a few minutes ago but mixed up one of the In-Reply-To
>> message IDs, so I'm resending it now with (hopefully) the correct
>> In-Reply-To message IDs.
>>
>>
>> I've bisected this and found that the issue is caused by commit
>> f46262bbc05af38565c560fd960b86a0e195fd4b:
>>
>> 'Revert "mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache behaviour"'
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?id=f46262bbc05af38565c560fd960b86a0e195fd4b
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20250617152521.879529420@linuxfoundation.org/
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-6.15/revert-mm-execmem-unify-early-execmem_cache-behaviour.patch?id=344d39fc8d8b7515b45a3bf568c115da12517b22
> 
> Thank you for digging into this.  Looks like I took the last patch in a
> patch series and not the previous ones, which caused this problem.  I've
> dropped this one now and will add it back next week after I also add all
> the other ones in the series.


You're welcome! :)

Btw, the same patch has turned up again in the stable queue für 6.15.4:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/log/queue-6.15/revert-mm-execmem-unify-early-execmem_cache-behaviour.patch

Is this intentional or a mistake?


Regards
Pascal