Re: [PATCH 5.6 000/167] 5.6.8-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 14:38, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 23:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.6.8 release.
> > There are 167 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 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:20:42 +0000.
> > 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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.6.8-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-5.6.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Results from Linaroâs test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
>
> NOTE:
> This kernel panic seems to be platform specific.
> However, I am sharing a few kernel panic logs here.
> While running LTP cve[1] and  libhugetlbfs[2] test suite on nxp ls2088
> device the kernel panic noticed with different kernel dump
> and unfortunately it is not easily reproducible.
> At this point it is unclear whether this problem
> started happening from this stable rc review or not.
> Because a different type of kernel panic noticed on Linus 's  mainline tree
> (5.7.0-rc2) version kernel while running LTP containers tests.

As per the initial investigation these kernel panic (s) noticed from a
single machine out of five machines under test.

- Naresh