Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.193-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:09:24AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 9/15/19 5:58 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 05:49:32PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On 9/14/19 1:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:28:39AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > On 9/13/19 6:06 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.193 release.
> > > > > > There are 14 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 Sun 15 Sep 2019 01:03:32 PM UTC.
> > > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is it really only me seeing this ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function 'translate_desc':
> > > > > include/linux/compiler.h:549:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_1879' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)
> > > > > 
> > > > > i386:allyesconfig, mips:allmodconfig and others, everywhere including
> > > > > mainline. Culprit is commit a89db445fbd7f1 ("vhost: block speculation
> > > > > of translated descriptors").
> > > > 
> > > > Nope, I just got another report of this on 5.2.y.  Problem is also in
> > > > Linus's tree :(
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Please apply upstream commit 0d4a3f2abbef ("Revert "vhost: block speculation
> > > of translated descriptors") to v4.9.y-queue and later to fix the build problems.
> > > Or maybe just drop the offending commit from the stable release queues.
> > 
> > I'm just going to drop the offending commit from everywhere and push out
> > new -rcs in a bit...
> > 
> 
> A quick rebuild of previously failed builds now passes, so looks like we are good.

Wonderful, thanks for checking!

greg k-h