Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/86] 6.1.104-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 05:03:45PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 12:09:30PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 10:35:11PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 04:59:39PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.104 release.
> > > > There are 86 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, 09 Aug 2024 15:00:24 +0000.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > > 6.1.103 had the regression of bpftool not building, due to a missing
> > > backport:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/v8lqgl$15bq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > 
> > > The problem is that da5f8fd1f0d3 ("bpftool: Mount bpffs when pinmaps
> > > path not under the bpffs") was backported to 6.1.103 but there is no
> > > defintion of create_and_mount_bpffs_dir(). 
> > > 
> > > it was suggested to revert the commit completely.
> > 
> > Thanks for this, I'll fix it up after this release.
> 
> Thanks! Note today Quentin Monnet proposed another solution by
> cherry-picking two commits:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/stable/67bfcb8a-e00e-47b2-afe2-970a60e4a173@xxxxxxxxxx/

They don't apply cleanly, so I'll just add a revert...

thanks,

greg k-h