Re: [PATCH 7.1 000/120] 7.1.3-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 03:26:58 EST


On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:41:41PM -0700, Ron Economos wrote:
> On 7/2/26 09:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.1.3 release.
> > There are 120 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, 04 Jul 2026 15:50:58 +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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.1.3-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-7.1.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
> The build is broken on RISC-V with:
>
> In file included from mm/kfence/core.c:36:
> ./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h: In function 'kfence_protect_page':
> ./arch/riscv/include/asm/kfence.h:25:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'mark_new_valid_map' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>    25 |                 mark_new_valid_map();
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This is caused by commit "riscv: kfence: Call mark_new_valid_map() for kfence_unprotect()" 66fcdb7f71b9d3d32828130cf5895adea059016d
>
> As already reported by https://lore.kernel.org/stable/6c5c0723-66c6-4f9f-8021-2562efc95c6e@xxxxxxxxxxx/,
> upstream commit "riscv: mm: Extract helper mark_new_valid_map()"
> 9ee25d0a70ff4494b4e1d266b962d0a574ef318a solves the issue. This commit
> cherry picks successfully.

Let me go do this and push out some -rc2 releases, thanks!

greg k-h