Re: [PATCH 6.6 00/88] 6.6.121-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 05:51:20 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 02:17:49AM -0800, Ron Economos wrote:
> On 1/15/26 08:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.121 release.
> > There are 88 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.6.121-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-6.6.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
>
> There is a new warning caused by commit "riscv: uprobes: Add missing fence.i after building the XOL buffer"
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c: In function 'arch_uprobe_copy_ixol':
> arch/riscv/kernel/probes/uprobes.c:170:23: warning: unused variable 'start' [-Wunused-variable]
>   170 |         unsigned long start = (unsigned long)dst;
>       |                       ^~~~~
>
> This can be fixed by adding the upstream companion commit "riscv: Replace
> function-like macro by static inline function", commit id
> 121f34341d396b666d8a90b24768b40e08ca0d61

I would, but it doesn't apply cleanly :(

Can you provide a working backport?

thanks,

greg k-h