Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/175] 6.6.131-rc1 review

From: Gary Guo

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 08:12:20 EST


On Thu Apr 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM BST, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:19:44 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.131 release.
>> > There are 175 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 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:16:56 +0000.
>> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>> The pin-init change does not build:
>>
>> error[E0425]: cannot find value `__refcount_guard` in this scope
>> --> rust/kernel/init/macros.rs:1320:25
>> |
>> 1320 | @guards([< __ $field _guard >], $($guards,)*),
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
>> |
>> ::: rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs:529:49
>> |
>> 529 | let inner = Box::try_init::<AllocError>(try_init!(ArcInner {
>> | _________________________________________________-
>> 530 | | // SAFETY: There are no safety requirements for this FFI call.
>> 531 | | refcount: Opaque::new(unsafe { bindings::REFCOUNT_INIT(1) }),
>> 532 | | data <- init::uninit::<T, AllocError>(),
>> 533 | | }? AllocError))?;
>> | |______________________- in this macro invocation
>> |
>> = note: this error originates in the macro `$crate::__init_internal` which comes from the expansion of the macro `try_init` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
>>
>> (among other errors)
>>
>> I would suggest dropping these for now:
>>
>> 0565326613fa ("rust: pin-init: internal: init: document load-bearing fact of field accessors")
>> 66655aacfa42 ("rust: pin-init: add references to previously initialized fields")
>>
>> Cc: Benno Lossin <lossin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Crap, I just did a realease. Let me go revert these and do a new
> release with that fixed, sorry about that, I guess my builds weren't
> testing rust on older kernels, my fault :(
>
> greg k-h

It is probably missing a dependency patch. I could take a look next week, but
perhaps not backporting to 6.6 is an easier solution :)

Best,
Gary