Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/183] 5.15.134-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 11 2023 - 13:44:27 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:58:49AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:00 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.134 release.
> > There are 183 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 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:12 +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-5.15.134-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.
> [...]
> > Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle setup
> >
>
> Let us drop this patch because it caused new tasks-RCU warnings (both
> normal and rude tasks RCU) in my stable test rig. We are discussing
> the "right fix" and at that time a backport can be done.
>
> Hope Liam is also Ok with that. I am happy to do that future backport if needed.

This is already in a released kernel, a bunch of them:
5.15.134 6.1.56 6.5.6 6.6-rc3
should it be reverted from all of the stable releases, or just for
5.15.y?

thanks,

greg k-h