Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/46] 5.4.2-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:13:12PM +0530, Amol Grover wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:53:18PM +0530, Amol Grover wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:35:20PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.2 release.
> > > > There are 46 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 Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:20:36 +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-5.4.2-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-5.4.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > > 
> > > > -------------
> > > > Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
> > > > 
> > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > >     Linux 5.4.2-rc1
> > > > 
> > > > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > >     platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix ACPI errors caused by passing 0 as input size
> > > > 
> > > > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > >     platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix ACPI errors caused by too small buffer
> > > > 
> > > > Candle Sun <candle.sun@unisoc.com>
> > > >     HID: core: check whether Usage Page item is after Usage ID items
> > > > 
> > > > Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > > >     crypto: talitos - Fix build error by selecting LIB_DES
> > > > 
> > > > Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> > > >     Revert "jffs2: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in jffs2_add_frag_to_fragtree()"
> > > > 
> > > > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> > > >     ext4: add more paranoia checking in ext4_expand_extra_isize handling
> > > > 
> > > > Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> > > >     r8169: fix resume on cable plug-in
> > > > 
> > > > Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
> > > >     r8169: fix jumbo configuration for RTL8168evl
> > > > 
> > > > Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
> > > >     selftests: pmtu: use -oneline for ip route list cache
> > > > 
> > > > John Rutherford <john.rutherford@dektech.com.au>
> > > >     tipc: fix link name length check
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > > >     selftests: bpf: correct perror strings
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > > >     selftests: bpf: test_sockmap: handle file creation failures gracefully
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > > >     net/tls: use sg_next() to walk sg entries
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > > >     net/tls: remove the dead inplace_crypto code
> > > > 
> > > > Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> > > >     selftests/tls: add a test for fragmented messages
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm not sure if this is relevant but I tested out the latest revision
> > > of tools/testing/selftests/net/tls (run as sudo) with 5.3.9, 5.3.13,
> > > and 5.4.1, and all of them resulted in Oops. I'm not sure that it
> > > happens only on my PC but the old version worked fine on all 3 kernels.
> > > 
> > > More information available in this thread:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20191203171817.GA24581@workstation-portable/
> > 
> > Any specific commit cause this issue?  Should I drop one/any of these?
> > 
> 
> The specific commit I'm talking about is the 32nd patch in this series
> [PATCH 5.4 32/46] selftests/tls: add a test for fragmented messages
> [ Upstream commit 65190f77424d7b82c4aad7326c9cce6bd91a2fcc ]
> 
> But it looks like everything is working fine for everyone, so maybe,
> it could be a problem specific to my distro/hardware/settings.

Does running Linus's tree right now with this commit in it also cause
problems for you?

thanks,

greg k-h