Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/63] 4.9.161-stable review

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 12:41:19 EST


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:11:00PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.161 release.
> There are 63 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 Feb 27 19:50:06 UTC 2019.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
Build results:
total: 172 pass: 170 fail: 2
Failed builds:
powerpc:defconfig
powerpc:ppc6xx_defconfig
Qemu test results:
total: 315 pass: 315 fail: 0

Same build error as with v4.4.y, plus:

arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c: In function âdlpar_memoryâ:
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c:782:9: error:
ârcâ may be used uninitialized in this function

which I completely fail to understand. It doesn't seeem to affect
any other kernel version, and it looks like it is another compiler bug.
I'll see if I can find out how to avoid it (other than reverting
to an older version of gcc). Not a concern for now.

Guenter