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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 11:41:42AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On 4/5/2023 11:30 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, unfortunately.

Great, we are bug-compatible!  :)

I'll go revert this from the 6.1 and 6.2 queues and push out new -rc
releases so that you can test.  But please work upstream to get this
resolved there otherwise everyone is going to hit this when 6.3-final is
released.

thanks,

greg k-h