linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.16 000/627] 6.16.1-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <2025081416-wing-bakery-3205@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:35:32 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.16 000/627] 6.16.1-rc1 review

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 07:11:05PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 18:21, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 05:46:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 23:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> >
> > > The following list of LTP syscalls failure noticed on qemu-arm64 with
> > > stable-rc 6.16.1-rc1 with CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y build configuration.
> > >
> > > Most failures report ENOSPC (28) or mkswap errors, which may be related
> > > to disk space handling in the 64K page configuration on qemu-arm64.
> > >
> > > The issue is reproducible on multiple runs.
> > >
> > > * qemu-arm64, ltp-syscalls - 64K page size test failures list,
> > >
> > >   - fallocate04
> > >   - fallocate05
> > >   - fdatasync03
> > >   - fsync01
> > >   - fsync04
> > >   - ioctl_fiemap01
> > >   - swapoff01
> > >   - swapoff02
> > >   - swapon01
> > >   - swapon02
> > >   - swapon03
> > >   - sync01
> > >   - sync_file_range02
> > >   - syncfs01
> 
> These test failures are not seen on Linus tree v6.16 or v6.15.
> 
> >
> > I'm also seeing epoll_ctl04 failing on Raspberry Pi 4, there's a bisect
> > still running but I suspect given the error message:
> 
> Right !
> LTP syscalls epoll_ctl04 test is failing on Linux mainline as well
> with this error on LKFT CI system on several platforms.
> 
> >
> > epoll_ctl04.c:59: TFAIL: epoll_ctl(..., EPOLL_CTL_ADD, ...) with number of nesting is 5 expected EINVAL: ELOOP (40)
> >
> > that it might be:
> >
> > # bad: [b47ce23d38c737a2f84af2b18c5e6b6e09e4932d] eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
> >
> > which already got tested, or something adjacent.
> 
> A patch has been proposed to update the LTP test case to align with
> recent changes in the Linux kernel code.
> 
> [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/epoll_ctl04: add ELOOP to expected errnos
> 
> -https://lore.kernel.org/ltp/39ee7abdee12e22074b40d46775d69d37725b932.1754386027.git.jstancek@redhat.com/

Great, thanks for letting us know that this is just a test-case issue.

greg k-h