Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/95] 4.9.96-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:57:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:23:49PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On 22 April 2018 at 19:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.96 release.
> > > There are 95 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 Tue Apr 24 13:51:53 UTC 2018.
> > > 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.96-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-4.9.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > 
> > Regression detected on arm64 devices Hikey and Juno.
> > 
> > Here is the list of bad commit patches to be reverted.
> > git bisect found first bad commit as "3"
> > but reverting 3 patch failed.
> > so i have to revert all four patches and boot test and the boot PASS on hikey.
> > 
> > 1)
> > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> >     random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG
> > 2)
> > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> >     random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying
> > 3)
> > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> >     random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized
> 
> This is the one I need to revert anyway.
> 
> Let me see if I can just drop that one and do a -rc3.  Give me a few
> hours...

Ok, I've dropped just patch 3 from 4.16.y, 4.14.y and 4.9.y and pushed
out -rc3 versions of all of these.  Let me know if that works or not for
you.

thanks,

greg k-h