linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/411] 5.15.186-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <CA+G9fYvUG9=yGCp1W9-9+dhA6xLRo7mrL=7x9kBNJmzg7TCn7w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:15:24 +0530
From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/411] 5.15.186-rc1 review

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 15:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:12:05AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 18:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.186 release.
> > > There are 411 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, 25 Jun 2025 13:05:51 +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-5.15.186-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-5.15.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Regressions on arm64 allyesconfig builds with gcc-12 and clang failed on
> > the Linux stable-rc 5.15.186-rc1.
> >
> > Regressions found on arm64
> > * arm64, build
> >   - gcc-12-allyesconfig
> >
> > Regression Analysis:
> >  - New regression? Yes
> >  - Reproducibility? Yes
> >
> > Build regression: stable-rc 5.15.186-rc1 arm64
> > drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c:702:9: error: positional initialization
> > of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute
> >
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
> >
> > ## Build errors
> > drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c:702:9: error: positional initialization
> > of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute
> > [-Werror=designated-init]
> >   702 |         {
> >       |         ^
> > drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_main.c:702:9: note: (near initialization for
> > 'qedf_cb_ops')
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> I saw this locally, at times, it's random, not always showing up.  Turn
> off the gcc randconfig build option and it goes away, which explains the
> randomness I guess.
>
> If you can bisect this to a real change that causes it, please let me
> know, I couldn't figure it out and so just gave up as I doubt anyone is
> really using that gcc plugin for that kernel version.

You are right !
The reported arm64 allyesconfig build failures are due to,

  randstruct: gcc-plugin: Remove bogus void member
  [ Upstream commit e136a4062174a9a8d1c1447ca040ea81accfa6a8 ]

- Naresh

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h