Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/179] 6.1.23-rc2 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Apr 05 2023 - 05:31:52 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 05:35:49PM -0700, Kelsey Steele wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 08:32:15PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.23 release.
> > There are 179 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, 06 Apr 2023 18:31:13 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> 6.1.23-rc2 is failing to boot on x86 WSL. A bisect leads to commit
> c2f05366b687 ("swiotlb: fix slot alignment checks") being the problem
> and reverting this patch puts everything back in a working state.
>
> There's a report from Dexuan who also encountered this error on a Linux
> VM on Hyper-V:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAA42JLa1y9jJ7BgQvXeUYQh-K2mDNHd2BYZ4iZUz33r5zY7oAQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Adding a chunk of my log below which shows errors occuring from the hv_strvsc driver.

Is this also a problem on 6.2-rc1, and Linus's tree?

thanks,

greg k-h