Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/320] 5.4.174-rc1 review

From: Daniel Díaz
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 23:48:10 EST


Hello!

On 1/24/22 12:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.174 release.
There are 320 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, 26 Jan 2022 18:39:11 +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-5.4.174-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-5.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

Regressions detected on arm, arm64, i386, x86, parisc.

This is on Perf on arm, arm64, i386, x86:

libbpf.c: In function 'bpf_object__elf_collect':
libbpf.c:1581:31: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'GElf_Shdr' {aka 'Elf64_Shdr'})
1581 | if (sh->sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
| ^~
libbpf.c:1585:31: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'GElf_Shdr' {aka 'Elf64_Shdr'})
1585 | if (sh->sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
| ^~
make[4]: *** [/builds/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: /home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/current/staticobjs/libbpf.o] Error 1


This is from PA-RISC with gcc-8, gcc-9, gcc-10, gcc-11:

/builds/linux/drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c: In function 'sba_io_pdir_entry':
/builds/linux/arch/parisc/include/asm/special_insns.h:11:3: error: expected ':' or ')' before 'ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY'
ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY(8b, 9b) \
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Bisection of the latter points to "parisc: Fix lpa and lpa_user defines".

Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx