Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/194] 6.1.47-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 05:27:02PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [Adding Peter Zijlstra to CC]
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 04:25:22PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 01:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.47 release.
> > > There are 194 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, 23 Aug 2023 19:40:45 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.47-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-6.1.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > 
> > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 
> > NOTE:
> > Kernel warnings noticed on x86_64 while booting the kernel.
> > Paul E. McKenney reported this last week [1] and discussions email
> > thread provided here.
> > 
> >  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4dc3d0ec-b827-4bce-8927-cfa5d837fd03@paulmck-laptop/T/
> 
> Seeing the same warning for the 6.1.47-rc1, which is missing
> 4ae68b26c3ab ("objtool/x86: Fix SRSO mess"). Unfortunately the commit
> will not apply cleanly to 6.1.y. 

I tried, and failed, let me try again...

> I guess we need at least as well dbcdbdfdf137 ("objtool: Rework
> instruction -> symbol mapping"), but not sure this is enough.

That gets messy fast, I tried to backport all of the 6.4 objtool changes
to 6.1, but ugh, the changes were highly intertwined with many other
things.

greg k-h