Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/451] 6.1.83-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 04:42, Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.83 release.
> There are 451 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 Tue Mar 26 11:11:59 PM UTC 2024.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-6.1.y&id2=v6.1.82
> 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,
> Sasha

The regression detected while building allmodconfig builds with clang-17
failed on all the architectures. But gcc-12 builds passed.

> Andrii Nakryiko (5):
>   libbpf: Fix faccessat() usage on Android
>   libbpf: Add missing LIBBPF_API annotation to libbpf_set_memlock_rlim
>     API
>   selftests/bpf: Convert test_global_funcs test to test_loader framework
>   selftests/bpf: Add global subprog context passing tests
>   bpf: don't infer PTR_TO_CTX for programs with unnamed context type

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

Build error:
------------
kernel/bpf/btf.c:5140:10: error: expression which evaluates to zero
treated as a null pointer constant of type 'const struct btf_member *'
[-Werror,-Wnon-literal-null-conversion]
 5140 |                 return false;
      |                        ^~~~~
1 error generated.
make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: kernel/bpf/btf.o] Error 1h

Steps to reproduce:
# tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm64 --toolchain clang-17
--kconfig allmodconfig LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1

Links:
 - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.1.y/build/v6.1.82-451-ga5b0d68e1b0f/testrun/23155982/suite/build/test/clang-17-allmodconfig/log
 - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2eAPAL6GZr1JrCuFjUfBrCjccbe/
 - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.1.y/build/v6.1.82-451-ga5b0d68e1b0f/testrun/23155982/suite/build/test/clang-17-allmodconfig/history/

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