Re: [PATCH 6.0 00/74] 6.0.17-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 06:08:50 EST


On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 10:59:58PM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 10:37, Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)
> <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 12:21:33PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.0.17 release.
> > > There are 74 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, 04 Jan 2023 11:05:34 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > mips: Booted on ci20 board. VNC server did not start, will try a bisect
> > later tonight.
>
> bisect pointed to 2575eebf1bd2 ("net: Return errno in
> sk->sk_prot->get_port().") introduced in v6.0.16
> Reverting it on top of v6.0.16 and 6.0.17-rc1 fixed the problem.
>
> This is also in v6.1.y but the issue is not seen there, and I am
> trying to figure out why.

As there's probably only going to be one more 6.0.y release before it is
end-of-life, if you can't figure it out, not that big of a deal :)

thanks,

greg k-h