Re: [PATCH 6.1 00/30] 6.1.37-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-06-30T05:30:21Z

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:21:39PM -0600, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 23:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 04:25:40PM -0600, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 12:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.37 release.
> > > > There are 30 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, 01 Jul 2023 18:41:39 +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-6.1.37-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
> > >
> > > Early report of failures.
> > >
> > > SPARC and PA-RISC both fail to build (GCC-8 and GCC-11).
> > >
> > > For SPARC:
> > > * allnoconfig
> > > * defconfig
> > > * tinyconfig
> > >
> > > -----8<-----
> > > /builds/linux/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c: In function 'force_user_fault':
> > > /builds/linux/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:312:49: error: 'regs'
> > > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > 312 | vma = lock_mm_and_find_vma(mm, address, regs);
> > > | ^~~~
> > > /builds/linux/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:312:49: note: each undeclared
> > > identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> > > make[4]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:250:
> > > arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.o] Error 1
> > > make[4]: Target 'arch/sparc/mm/' not remade because of errors.
> > > ----->8-----
> > >
> > > For PA-RISC:
> > > * allnoconfig
> > > * tinyconfig
> > >
> > > -----8<-----
> > > /builds/linux/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c: In function 'do_page_fault':
> > > /builds/linux/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: error: 'prev' undeclared
> > > (first use in this function)
> > > 292 | if (!prev || !(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
> > > | ^~~~
> > > /builds/linux/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: note: each undeclared
> > > identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> > > make[4]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:250:
> > > arch/parisc/mm/fault.o] Error 1
> > > make[4]: Target 'arch/parisc/mm/' not remade because of errors.
> > > ----->8-----
> >
> > These issues are also in Linus's tree right now, right? Or are they
> > unique to the -rc releases right now?
>
> Correct. I went to look at mainline and it fails the same way there
> for SPARC and PA-RISC, so 6.1 and 6.4 are on par there; 6.3's failures
> on Arm64 are only seen there.

Thanks, I'll go dig into the 6.3 failures after coffee...