Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/147] 4.19.311-rc2 review

[Daniel Díaz]

Hello!

On 25/03/24 5:58 a. m., Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.311 release.
> There are 147 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 Mar 27 11:58:33 AM 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-4.19.y&id2=v4.19.310
> 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,
> Sasha


As with 5.4, we see a new warning on Arm (32- and 64-bits):

-----8<-----
  /builds/linux/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c: In function 'brcm_avs_cpufreq_get':
  /builds/linux/drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c:462:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
    struct private_data *priv = policy->driver_data;
    ^~~~~~
----->8-----

Bisection pointed to:

  commit 2b373882d724311d7a5dadf225ed296f20abc8f9
  Author: Anastasia Belova <abelova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Wed Jan 17 10:12:20 2024 +0300

      cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value
      
      [ Upstream commit f661017e6d326ee187db24194cabb013d81bc2a6 ]

Reproducer:

  tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm64 --toolchain gcc-8 --kconfig defconfig

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


Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx