Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/95] 4.9.96-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 05:25:53PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:01:37PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:57:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:23:49PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > On 22 April 2018 at 19:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.96 release.
> > > > > There are 95 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 Apr 24 13:51:53 UTC 2018.
> > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > >
> > > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > > >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.96-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.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > greg k-h
> > > > 
> > > > Regression detected on arm64 devices Hikey and Juno.
> > > > 
> > > > Here is the list of bad commit patches to be reverted.
> > > > git bisect found first bad commit as "3"
> > > > but reverting 3 patch failed.
> > > > so i have to revert all four patches and boot test and the boot PASS on hikey.
> > > > 
> > > > 1)
> > > > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > > >     random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG
> > > > 2)
> > > > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > > >     random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying
> > > > 3)
> > > > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > > >     random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized
> > > 
> > > This is the one I need to revert anyway.
> > > 
> > > Let me see if I can just drop that one and do a -rc3.  Give me a few
> > > hours...
> > 
> > Ok, I've dropped just patch 3 from 4.16.y, 4.14.y and 4.9.y and pushed
> > out -rc3 versions of all of these.  Let me know if that works or not for
> > you.
> 
> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.

Great!

> I made a few comments inline regarding the reported failures. Also, as
> this report is pushing 200 lines now with all of our tests and
> environments (about 8*22 test runs), I'm planning on making some changes
> in the next few weeks to make it more concise and useful. Any
> suggestions or feature requests are most welcome.

How about only reporting problems?  Having tests "pass" is the norm and
should always happen, right?  That would make the reports smaller.

thanks,

greg k-h