Linux regressions report for mainline [2024-09-12]

From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Thu Sep 12 2024 - 09:04:52 EST


Hi Linus! Due to the pending 6.11 release a quick and brief extra
report about regressions from this cycle. For more details and a
few regressions I did not find noteworthy, see:
https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/mainline/

Ciao, Thorsten


6.11-rc regressions with available fixes in -next that will likely make it to you
=================================================================================

* reported 7 weeks ago: mm: swap stress test now runs into OOM
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAF8kJuNP5iTj2p07QgHSGOJsiUfYpJ2f4R1Q5-3BN9JiD9W_KA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Fix: 0885ef47056079 ("mm: vmscan.c: fix OOM on swap stress test")
[next-20240912 (pending-fixes)]

* reported 27 days ago: block: hang when when setting echo noop > /sys/
block/sda/queue/scheduler
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219166 and
https://lore.kernel.org/all/0a43155c-b56d-4f85-bb46-dce2a4e5af59@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fix: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240908000704.414538-1-dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx/
[the fix was in -next but is gone now, but I'm pretty sure Jens will
sent it straight to you before Sunday]

* reported 24 days ago: drm: amdgpu: certain operations are much slower
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3569

Fix: 578aab4ecc7347 ("drm/amd/display: Do not reset planes based on crtc zpos_changed") [next-20240911]

* reported 9 days ago [affects stable, too]: soundwire: audio broken for
Meteor Lake-P HD Audio Controllers
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b6c75eee-761d-44c8-8413-2a5b34ee2f98@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Fix: 233a95fd574fde ("soundwire: stream: Revert "soundwire: stream: fix
programming slave ports for non-continous port maps"") [next-20240912 (pending-fixes)]


6.11-rc regressions with available fixes in -next
=================================================

* reported 7 days ago: arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: boot broken on msm8939
platforms
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a15105f-67e2-42f6-b624-562485b0bee2@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fix: d92e9ea2f0f918 ("arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: revert use of APCS mbox
for RPM") [next-20240912]


6.11-rc regressions with available fixes up for review:
=====================================================

* reported 18 days ago: firmware: qcom: scm: smc: msm8960 SoC fails to
boot
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/692cfe9a-8c05-4ce4-813e-82b3f310019a@xxxxxxxxx/

Fix: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240911-tzmem-null-ptr-v2-0-7c61b1a1b463@xxxxxxxxxx/

* reported 4 days ago: power: supply: sysfs: permissions wrong
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20240908144414.82887-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fix: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240908185337.103696-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx/


6.11-rc regressions without any fixes I'm aware of
==================================================

* reported 5 weeks ago: amdgpu: launching some RenPy games causes hangs
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABXGCsNgx6gQCqBq-L2P15ydaN_66sM9CgGa9GQYNzQsaa6Dkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

* reported 23 days ago: btusb: driver fails to initialize MT7921AUN on
v6.11-rc4
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZsTh7Jyug7MbZsLE@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

* reported 13 days ago: KVM: VMX: wayland starting and failing right away
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/877cbyuzdn.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx/

* reported 11 days ago [affects stable, too]:video/aperture: suddenly
two displays appear as connected, but only one display is connected
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219217
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/issues/12160

* reported 6 days ago: net: booting from nfs root on an arm64 fvp model
broke
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZtsTGp9FounnxZaN@xxxxxxx/

* reported 5 days ago: iwlwifi: resume error
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CAP-bSRbMbZe9LCE15SCbYNTGZjE_xiAm29qzO_WNVjHsJ6oyyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/