Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.193-stable review

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Greg,

On 9/14/19 1:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:28:39AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 9/13/19 6:06 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.193 release.
> > > There are 14 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 15 Sep 2019 01:03:32 PM UTC.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > Is it really only me seeing this ?
> >
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function 'translate_desc':
> > include/linux/compiler.h:549:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_1879' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)
> >
> > i386:allyesconfig, mips:allmodconfig and others, everywhere including
> > mainline. Culprit is commit a89db445fbd7f1 ("vhost: block speculation
> > of translated descriptors").
>
> Nope, I just got another report of this on 5.2.y.  Problem is also in
> Linus's tree :(

Please apply upstream commit 0d4a3f2abbef ("Revert "vhost: block speculation
of translated descriptors") to v4.9.y-queue and later to fix the build problems.
Or maybe just drop the offending commit from the stable release queues.

Thanks,
Guenter