Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/533] 6.1.165-rc2 review

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 06:26:08PM +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Am 02.03.2026 um 17:09 schrieb Sasha Levin:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.165 release.
> > There are 533 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.
>
>
> I get a build error in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:
>
>  CC      arch/x86/kernel/setup.o
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c: In function ‘ima_get_kexec_buffer’:
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:385:15: error: implicit declaration of 
> function ‘ima_validate_range’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>  385 |         ret = ima_validate_range(ima_kexec_buffer_phys, ima_kexec_buffer_size);
>      |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: arch/x86/kernel/setup.o] Fehler 1
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/x86/kernel] Fehler 2
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: arch/x86] Fehler 2
> make: *** [Makefile:2025: .] Fehler 2
> root@linus:/usr/src/linux-stable-rc#
>
>
> I always do my test builds with CONFIG_WEROR=Y, full .config attached.
>
> The line causing the error seems to come from
>
> 73b97ee06bd63 x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima 
> kexec buffer [ Upstream commit 
> c5489d04337b47e93c0623e8145fcba3f5739efd ]
>
> via
>
> 136114e0abf03005e182d75761ab694648e6d388 "Merge tag 
> 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm"
> Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton
>
>
> If I revert 73b97ee06bd635433d1c429ecdbc9167da5de588, the build succeeds, and the kernel boots and seems to work fine.

I didn't even get a warning for this one :/

I'll drop it and push the -rc2 branch again for all affected kernels.

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Thanks,
Sasha