Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/177] 5.8.10-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 9/16/20 12:29 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:54:24PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 9/15/20 3:06 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > On 9/15/20 8:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.10 release.
> > > > There are 177 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, 17 Sep 2020 14:06:12 +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-5.8.10-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-5.8.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > Compiled and booted fine. wifi died:
> > >
> > > ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not init core (-110)
> > > ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)
> > >
> > > This is regression from 5.8.9 and 5.9-rc5 works just fine.
> > >
> > > I will try to bisect later this evening to see if I can isolate the
> > > commit.
> >
> > The following commit is what caused ath10k_pci driver problem
> > that killed wifi.
> >
> > Prateek Sood <prsood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >      firmware_loader: fix memory leak for paged buffer
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.8.y&id=ec0a59266c9c9f46037efd3dcc0323973e102271
>
> Ugh, that's not good, is this also a problem in 5.9-rc5 as well?  For
> reference, this is commit 4965b8cd1bc1 ("firmware_loader: fix memory
> leak for paged buffer") in Linus's tree.

I am not seeing this on Linux 5.9-rc5 for sure.

> And it should be showing up in 5.4.y at the moment too, as this patch is
> in that tree right now...

I don't see this patch in  4.19.146-rc1

Linus's tree works for with this patch in. I compared the two files
for differences in commit between Linus's tree and 5.8.10-rc1

Couldn't find anything obvious.

thanks,
-- Shuah