Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/392] 5.15.197-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 09:51:28AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 12/3/25 07:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.197 release.
> > There are 392 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, 05 Dec 2025 15:23:16 +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-5.15.197-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
> 
> MIPS fails to build with the same errors as 5.10 with:
> 
> arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c: In function 'r4k_tlb_uniquify':
> arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c:591:17: error: passing argument 1 of 'memblock_free'
> makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
>    memblock_free(tlb_vpns, tlb_vpn_size);
>                  ^~~~~~~~
> In file included from arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c:15:
> ./include/linux/memblock.h:107:31: note: expected 'phys_addr_t' {aka
> 'unsigned int'} but argument is of type 'long unsigned int *'
>  int memblock_free(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
>                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Offending commit now dropped, I'll push out a -rc2 soon for testing.

thanks,

greg k-h