Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/94] 5.4.290-rc2 review

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat Feb 01 2025 - 10:44:01 EST


On 2/1/25 07:08, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 16:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.290 release.
There are 94 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 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:20:53 +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-5.4.290-rc2.gz
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

As other reported,
the riscv build failed with defconfig with gcc and clang toolchain on the
stable-rc 5.4.290-rc1 and 5.4.290-rc2

* riscv, build
- clang-19-allnoconfig
- clang-19-allyesconfig
- clang-19-defconfig
- clang-19-tinyconfig
- gcc-12-allnoconfig
- gcc-12-allyesconfig
- gcc-12-defconfig
- gcc-12-tinyconfig
- gcc-8-allnoconfig
- gcc-8-allyesconfig
- gcc-8-defconfig
- gcc-8-tinyconfig

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
Build regression: riscv kernel traps.c error: use of undeclared
identifier 'handle_exception'

Build error:
---
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:164:23: error: use of undeclared identifier
'handle_exception'
164 | csr_write(CSR_TVEC, &handle_exception);
| ^
1 warning and 1 error generated


FWIW: Reverting the riscv patches fixes the problem.

Guenter