Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/15] 6.1.48-rc1 review

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

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 12:35:46PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> + linux-nfs and more
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.48 release.
> > There are 15 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, 26 Aug 2023 14:14:28 +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-6.1.48-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-6.1.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> Following test regression found on stable-rc 6.1.
> Rpi4 is using NFS mount rootfs and running LTP syscalls testing.
> chown02 tests creating testfile2 on NFS mounted and validating
> the functionality and found that it was a failure.
> 
> This is already been reported by others on lore and fix patch merged
> into stable-rc linux-6.4.y [1] and [2].
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

Odd, it's not a regression in this -rc cycle, so it was missed in the
previous ones somehow?

> Test log:
> --------
> chown02.c:46: TPASS: chown(testfile1, 0, 0) passed
> chown02.c:46: TPASS: chown(testfile2, 0, 0) passed
> chown02.c:58: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700, expected 0102700
> 
> fchown02.c:57: TPASS: fchown(3, 0, 0) passed
> fchown02.c:57: TPASS: fchown(4, 0, 0) passed
> fchown02.c:67: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700,
> expected 0102700
> 
> 
> ## Build
> * kernel: 6.1.48-rc1
> * git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
> * git branch: linux-6.1.y
> * git commit: c079d0dd788ad4fe887ee6349fe89d23d72f7696
> * git describe: v6.1.47-16-gc079d0dd788a
> * test details:
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.1.y/build/v6.1.47-16-gc079d0dd788a
> 
> ## Test Regressions (compared to v6.1.46)
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b, ltp-syscalls
>   - chown02
>   - fchown02
> 
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b-64k_page_size, ltp-syscalls
>   - chown02
>   - fchown02
> 
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b-clang, ltp-syscalls
>   - chown02
>   - fchown02
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Do we need the following patch into stable-rc linux-6.1.y ?
> 
> I see from mailing thread discussion, says that
> 
> the above commit is backported to LTS kernels -- 5.10.y,5.15.y and 6.1.y.

What "above commit"?

And what commit should be backported?

confused,

greg k-h