Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/168] 5.15.176-rc1 review

From: Ron Economos
Date: Tue Jan 07 2025 - 01:34:41 EST


On 1/6/25 07:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.176 release.
There are 168 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, 08 Jan 2025 15:11:04 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.176-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-5.15.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

On RISC-V, the build fails with:

In file included from mm/kfence/core.c:33:
./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h: In function 'kfence_protect_page':
./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h:59:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'local_flush_tlb_kernel_range'; did you mean 'flush_tlb_kernel_range'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   59 |         local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |         flush_tlb_kernel_range
In file included from mm/kfence/report.c:20:
./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h: In function 'kfence_protect_page':
./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h:59:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'local_flush_tlb_kernel_range'; did you mean 'flush_tlb_kernel_range'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   59 |         local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |         flush_tlb_kernel_range

This is caused by commit d28e50e231ce20a9b9cad9edce139ac775421ce5 riscv: Fix IPIs usage in kfence_protect_page().

The function local_flush_tlb_kernel_range() doesn't exist for RISC-V in 5.15.x and doesn't appear until much later in 6.8-rc1. So probably best to drop this patch.