Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/58] 4.4.81-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 05:37:45PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 08/09/2017 12:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.81 release.
> > There are 58 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 Fri Aug 11 19:41:25 UTC 2017.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> 
> Build results:
> 	total: 145 pass: 143 fail: 2
> Failed builds:
> 	sparc64:allmodconfig
> 	sparc64:allnoconfig
> 
> Qemu test results:
> 	total: 115 pass: 110 fail: 5
> Failed tests:
> 	nios2:10m50-ghrd:10m50_defconfig:10m50_devboard.dts
> 	sparc64:sun4u:smp:sparc64_defconfig
> 	sparc64:sun4v:smp:sparc64_defconfig
> 	sparc64:sun4u:nosmp:sparc64_defconfig
> 	sparc64:sun4v:nosmp:sparc64_defconfig
> 
> Build error:
> 
> arch/sparc/mm/tsb.c:478:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'tsb_context_switch'
> 
> The nios2 test crashes at reboot.
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> ea = 00000000, ra = c803f110, cause = 13
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops
> 
> I'll start a bisect on it. Note that it also crashes in 4.9.

Odd that this also doesn't crash on 3.18 right now, as it has the same
offending patch.  I've queued up the fix now, thanks.

greg k-h