Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/117] 5.15.90-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:39:55PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 20:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.90 release.
> > There are 117 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 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:02:08 +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-5.15.90-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
> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Build regressions found on sh:
>    - build/gcc-8-dreamcast_defconfig
>    - build/gcc-8-microdev_defconfig
> 
> 
> Build error logs:
> 
> `.exit.text' referenced in section `__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o:
> defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
> `.exit.text' referenced in section `__bug_table' of
> drivers/char/hw_random/core.o: defined in discarded section
> `.exit.text' of drivers/char/hw_random/core.o
> make[1]: *** [/builds/linux/Makefile:1218: vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> Bisection points to this commit,
>     arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv
>     commit 99cb0d917ffa1ab628bb67364ca9b162c07699b1 upstream.
> 
> Ref:
> upstream discussion thread,
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y7Jal56f6UBh1abE@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/

Argh, what a mess.  Ok, let me rip out that commit (and the "fixes up
that commit") series from the trees and push out a -rc2 in a few hours
after I wake up.  I was worried about that one, and I should have
trusted my first instinct...

thanks so much for the report and bisection.

greg k-h