Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/917] 5.15.3-rc1 review

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Jon,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 10:23 AM Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16/11/2021 08:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 02:09:44PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> >> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 12:06, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 00:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> >>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.3 release.
> >>>> There are 917 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, 17 Nov 2021 16:52:23 +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-5.15.3-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-5.15.y
> >>>> and the diffstat can be found below.
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> greg k-h
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Regression found on arm64 juno-r2 / qemu.
> >> Following kernel crash reported on stable-rc 5.15.
> >>
> >> Anders bisected this kernel crash and found the first bad commit,
> >>
> >> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>     crypto: api - Fix built-in testing dependency failures

That's commit adad556efcdd ("crypto: api - Fix built-in testing
dependency failures")

> I am seeing the same for Tegra as well and bisect is pointing to the
> above for me too.
> > Is this also an issue on 5.16-rc1?
>
> I have not observed the same issue for 5.16-rc1.

Following the "Fixes: adad556efcdd" chain:

cad439fc040efe5f ("crypto: api - Do not create test larvals if manager
is disabled")
beaaaa37c664e9af ("crypto: api - Fix boot-up crash when crypto manager
is disabled")

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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