Re: [PATCH 4.16 00/26] 4.16.5-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 04:42:20PM -0500, Dan Rue wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:33:09PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.16.5 release.
> > There are 26 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 Apr 27 10:33:04 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-4.16.5-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-4.16.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm and x86_64.
> 
> We did find a regression in 4.16.4 that is dragonboard-410c specific
> that we missed the first time around. Discovered using
> kselftest/printf.sh:
> 
>     /sbin/modprobe test_printf
>     [   22.725551] test_printf: hashing plain 'p' has unexpected format
>     [   22.726031] test_printf: failed 1 out of 236 tests
>     modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'test_printf': Invalid argument
> 
> We'll bisect it and find the issue but since it was already released,
> I assume you won't want to hold up 4.16.5 for it.

As it's an old issue, no, I'll wait for you all to find it and not hold
this release up :)

thanks,

greg k-h