Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/160] 6.12.7-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 27 2024 - 08:06:05 EST


On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 01:41:41PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:12:40 +0000,
> Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 21:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.7 release.
> > > There are 160 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, 27 Dec 2024 15:53:30 +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-6.12.7-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-6.12.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > The following test regressions found on arm64 selftests
> > kvm kvm_set_id_regs.
> >
> > This was reported and fixed by a patch [1].
> >
> > * graviton4-metal, kselftest-kvm
> > - kvm_set_id_regs
> >
> > * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-nvhe, kselftest-kvm
> > - kvm_set_id_regs
> >
> > * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-protected, kselftest-kvm
> > - kvm_set_id_regs
> >
> > * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-vhe, kselftest-kvm
> > - kvm_set_id_regs
> >
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is totally harmless, and if anything, indicates that the *fix*
> is doing its job, and that this patch *must* be backported.

Ok, but for some bizare reason someone stripped OFF the Fixes: tag,
which causes this problem to now show up. Hopefully that will not
happen again in the future, but now I don't know what the git id is in
Linus's tree to be able to apply here.

So, what do I do now?

confused,

greg k-h