Re: futex breakage in 4.9 stable branch

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-02-23 at 15:00 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.258 kernel.
> > > 
> > > All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.
> > > 
> > > The updated 4.9.y git tree can be found at:
> > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.9.y
> > > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> > >         
> > 
> > The backported futex fixes are still incomplete/broken in this version.
> > If I enable lockdep and run the futex self-tests (from 5.10):
> > 
> > - on 4.9.246, they pass with no lockdep output
> > - on 4.9.257 and 4.9.258, they pass but futex_requeue_pi trigers a
> >   lockdep splat
> > 
> > I have a local branch that essentially updates futex and rtmutex in
> > 4.9-stable to match 4.14-stable.  With this, the tests pass and lockdep
> > is happy.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that branch has about another 60 commits.  Further, the
> > more we change futex in 4.9, the more difficult it is going to be to
> > update the 4.9-rt branch.  But I don't see any better option available
> > at the moment.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> There were some posted futex fixes for 4.9 (and 4.4) on the stable list
> that I have not gotten to yet.
> 
> Hopefully after these are merged (this week), these issues will be
> resolved.
> 
> If not, then yes, they need to be fixed and any help you can provide
> would be appreciated.
> 
> As for "difficulty", yes, it's rough, but the changes backported were
> required, for obvious reasons :(

Apologies for the fuss.

The back-port become more complex the further back it was taken..

Had I known about the self-tests, I would have ensured those were
passing too, as well as the the build/boot/auto-builder tests
actually carried out.

Let me know if there's anything further I can do to help.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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