Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/96] 4.9.163-stable review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-13T20:49:52Z

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.163 release.
> > There are 96 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 Mar 14 17:10:06 UTC 2019.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> Build results:
> total: 172 pass: 170 fail: 2
> Failed builds:
> i386:tools/perf
> x86_64:tools/perf
> Qemu test results:
> total: 316 pass: 316 fail: 0
>
> Culprit is commit 386ca5754fad ("perf trace: Support multiple "vfs_getname"
> probes"), which introduces a call to strstarts() but not the necessary
> include file or declaration. Unfortunately, fixing that is quite complex
> (commit 8e99b6d4533c ("tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel")
> doesn't apply).

Thanks for tracking this down, I'm lost in a maze of gcc8 issues with
perf on 4.9 and 4.4 at the moment trying to fix that.

I'll go drop this patch from the 4.9 and 4.4 queues.

thanks,

greg k-h