Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/97] 4.19.300-rc1 review

[Daniel Díaz]

Hello!

On 24/11/23 11:49 a. m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.300 release.
> There are 97 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 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:19:17 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.300-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-4.19.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

We see this failure on Arm32:
-----8<-----
  /builds/linux/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c: In function 'meson_uart_probe':
  /builds/linux/drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c:728:13: error: 'struct uart_port' has no member named 'has_sysrq'
    728 |         port->has_sysrq = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_MESON_CONSOLE);
        |             ^~
  make[4]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:303: drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.o] Error 1
----->8-----

And this one on Arm64:
-----8<-----
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c: In function 'profile_dead_cpu':
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:346:27: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'prof_cpu_mask' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
    346 |         if (prof_cpu_mask != NULL)
        |                           ^~
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:49:22: note: 'prof_cpu_mask' declared here
     49 | static cpumask_var_t prof_cpu_mask;
        |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c: In function 'profile_online_cpu':
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:383:27: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'prof_cpu_mask' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
    383 |         if (prof_cpu_mask != NULL)
        |                           ^~
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:49:22: note: 'prof_cpu_mask' declared here
     49 | static cpumask_var_t prof_cpu_mask;
        |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c: In function 'profile_tick':
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:413:47: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'prof_cpu_mask' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
    413 |         if (!user_mode(regs) && prof_cpu_mask != NULL &&
        |                                               ^~
  /builds/linux/kernel/profile.c:49:22: note: 'prof_cpu_mask' declared here
     49 | static cpumask_var_t prof_cpu_mask;
        |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
----->8-----

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>

Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx