Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/102] 6.1.98-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jul 11 2024 - 05:43:34 EST


On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 09:10:11PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 at 16:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.98 release.
> > There are 102 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 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:06:25 +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-6.1.98-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.
> We have two major regressions.
>
> 1)
> As I have reported on 6.9.9-rc1 same kernel BUG and panic noticed [1]
> while running kunit tests on all test environments [1] seen on 6.1.98-rc1.
>
> BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xb0/0x17c
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CA+G9fYsqkB4=pVZyELyj3YqUc9jXFfgNULsPk9t8q-+P1w_G6A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> 2)
> S390 build failed due to following build errors on 6.1 and 6.6.
> Build error:
> ----
> arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h:253:11: error: expected ';' at end
> of declaration
> 253 | psw_t psw __uninitialized;
> | ^
> | ;
> [2] https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2j0YAKrnHmvjt4fKPfYoEmSKWlG/

Thanks, I'll go drop this from 6.6 and older queues now, seems that
__unitialized doesn't work on older kernels just yet.

thanks,

greg k-h