Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/29] 4.9.106-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:57:56PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:16:49AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 08:57:56AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.106 release.
> > > > There are 29 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 Wed Jun  6 06:57:52 UTC 2018.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > For v4.9.105-30-ge0f8632 (4.9.106-rc1-00030-ge0f8632):
> > > 
> > > Build results:
> > > 	total: 148 pass: 148 fail: 0
> > > Qemu test results:
> > > 	total: 139 pass: 137 fail: 2
> > > Failed tests: 
> > > 	mips64:malta_defconfig:nosmp
> > > 	mips64:malta_defconfig:smp
> > > 
> > > Qemu tests fail with:
> > > 
> > > This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
> > > random: fast init done
> > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a
> > > 
> > > ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000a
> > > 
> > > While tracking this down, I found commit 4e4636cf981b ("objtool: Enclose
> > > contents of unreachable() macro in a block"), which says "... Guenter Roeck
> > > reported a boot failure in mips64 ...". Go figure. Applying commit
> > > 4e4636cf981b on top of v4.9.106-rc1 indeed fixes the problem.
> > > 
> > 
> > An additional note: It appears that neither 009615ab7fd4 ("USB: serial: cp210x:
> > use tcflag_t to fix incompatible pointer type") nor 0fde7ad71ee3 ("sparc64: Fix
> > build warnings with gcc 7") made it into v4.9.106-rc1, even though you mentioned
> > that they did, or at least I think you did. What happened ?
> 
> I "switched" trees for 4.9 for this release.  Those patches are still in
> a queue, but I wanted to have this release only be about the objtool
> changes to make it easier to narrow down any potential issues.  I'll do
> a new 4.9 release after this one with those patches in it.
> 

NP. I just sent you a couple of additional gcc releated patches. Hope this will
be the final set.

Thanks,
Guenter