Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/123] 5.15.82-rc2 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 06 2022 - 11:35:02 EST


On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 07:11:39AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/6/22 04:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.82 release.
> > There are 123 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, 08 Dec 2022 12:40:31 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c: In function 'handle_IPI':
> arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c:195:44: error: 'cpu' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 195 | ipi_cpu_crash_stop(cpu, get_irq_regs());
> | ^~~
> arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c:195:44: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c:217:22: error: 'old_regs' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 217 | set_irq_regs(old_regs);
> | ^~~~~~~~
>
> This is with v5.15.81-124-g9269e46bc838.
>
> The backport of commit 9b932aadfc47d seems wrong. The original version introduces
> the cpu variable in handle_IPI(). The backport doesn't, and removes old_regs
> instead.
>
> Backport:
>
> void handle_IPI(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> - struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
> unsigned long *pending_ipis = &ipi_data[smp_processor_id()].bits;
> unsigned long *stats = ipi_data[smp_processor_id()].stats;
>
> Original:
>
> void handle_IPI(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> - unsigned long *pending_ipis = &ipi_data[smp_processor_id()].bits;
> - unsigned long *stats = ipi_data[smp_processor_id()].stats;
> + unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> + unsigned long *pending_ipis = &ipi_data[cpu].bits;
> + unsigned long *stats = ipi_data[cpu].stats;
>
> Upstream includes commit 7ecbc648102f which removes the old_regs variable.
> That doesn't mean it can be removed in the backport.

Yeah, that looks odd. I've dropped it from both 5.15 and 6.0 now and
will push out a new -rc with that removed.

thanks for testing!

greg k-h