Re: [PATCH 4.3 000/200] 4.3.6-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 02/17/2016 01:41 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 02/17/2016 01:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:11:31AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> >>> On 02/15/2016 08:16 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> >>>> On 02/14/2016 03:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> -------------------------
> >>>>> NOTE: This is the last 4.3.y kernel to be released.  After this one, it
> >>>>> is end-of-life, please move to 4.4.y at this point in time.
> >>>>> -------------------------
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.3.6 release.
> >>>>> There are 200 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 Feb 16 22:21:48 UTC 2016.
> >>>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >>>>> 	kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.3.6-rc1.gz
> >>>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Compiled fine. I am seeing the following depmod warnings.
> >>>> Something missing??
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Didn't boot on my test system. Unfortunately
> >>> I won't be able to debug this until Wednesday.
> >>
> >> Were you able to determine what went wrong here?
> >>
> > 
> > This is also on the same system. I am hoping 3.10
> > failure and this one are the same :) That is the
> > next on the list.
> > 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Please remove the following commit:
> 
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     tracing/stacktrace: Show entire trace if passed in function not found
> 
> This seems to an incomplete backport to 4.3.6 from 4.5
> 
>   CC      kernel/trace/trace_stack.o
> kernel/trace/trace_stack.c: In function âcheck_stackâ:
> kernel/trace/trace_stack.c:126:11: error: âstack_trace_maxâ undeclared (first use in this function)
>   if (i == stack_trace_max.nr_entries)
>            ^
> kernel/trace/trace_stack.c:126:11: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> scripts/Makefile.build:258: recipe for target 'kernel/trace/trace_stack.o' failed
> make[2]: *** [kernel/trace/trace_stack.o] Error 1
> scripts/Makefile.build:403: recipe for target 'kernel/trace' failed
> make[1]: *** [kernel/trace] Error 2
> Makefile:941: recipe for target 'kernel' failed
> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
> 
> Without kernel/trace/trace_stack.c change everything
> works fine.

Ah, that too was removed based on Guenter's reporting it broke the build
on his machines.

thanks for tracking it down.

greg k-h