Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/23] 5.4.298-rc1 review

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

On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 03:11:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sept 2025 at 19:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.298 release.
> > There are 23 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, 04 Sep 2025 13:19:14 +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-5.4.298-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
> 
> 
> The following build warnings / errors were noticed on powerpc cell_defconfig
> and mpc83xx_defconfig with clang-20 toolchain on stable-rc 5.4.298-rc1.
> 
> But the gcc-12 build passed.
> 
> * powerpc, build
>   - clang-20-cell_defconfig
>   - clang-20-mpc83xx_defconfig
>   - clang-nightly-cell_defconfig
>   - clang-nightly-mpc83xx_defconfig
> 
> Regression Analysis:
> - New regression? yes
> - Reproducibility? yes
> 
> First seen on 5.4.298-rc1
> Bad: 5.4.298-rc1
> Good: v5.4.297
> 
> Build regression: stable-rc 5.4.298-rc1 powerpc/boot/util.S:44: Error:
> junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `0'
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

Known issue, patch already submitted:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250902235234.2046667-1-nathan@kernel.org

Will queue that up for the next round of releases, using clang-20 on
5.4.y is brave :)

thanks,

greg k-h