Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/139] 5.10.168-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:50:24AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 2/13/23 06:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.168 release.
> > There are 139 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, 15 Feb 2023 14:46:51 +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-5.10.168-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-5.10.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> There is a regression coming from:
> 
> nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race
> 
> which causes the following to happen for MTD devices:
> 
> [    6.031640] kobject_add_internal failed for mtd0 with -EEXIST, don't try
> to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> [    7.846965] spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with error -17
> 
> attached is a full log with the call trace. This does not happen with
> v6.2-rc8 where the MTD partitions are successfully registered.

Can you use `git bisect` to find the offending commit?

thanks,

greg k-h