Re: [PATCH 4.9 000/104] 4.9.72-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Dec 23 2017 - 09:09:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:29:55AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:02:54PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 09:45:26AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.72 release.
> > > There are 104 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 Dec 24 08:45:33 UTC 2017.
> > > 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-4.9.72-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > There is now a -rc2 out for the recent BPF patches that we need:
> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.72-rc2.gz
>
> I didn't try a full rebuild, but there is still (at least) one build failure.
> sparc:allmodconfig fails to build with
>
> ERROR: "vac_cache_size" [drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rdma_rxe.ko] undefined!
>
> due to 663615c57ac1 ("infiniband: Fix alignment of mmap cookies to support
> VIPT caching"). This patch also requires 9d262d95114cf ("sparc32: Export
> vac_cache_size to fix build error").

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h