Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/14] 4.9.193-stable review

Guenter Roeck
2019-09-15T00:49:37Z

Hi Greg,

On 9/14/19 1:31 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 01:28:39AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 9/13/19 6:06 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.193 release.
>>> There are 14 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 Sun 15 Sep 2019 01:03:32 PM UTC.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>>
>>
>> Is it really only me seeing this ?
>>
>> drivers/vhost/vhost.c: In function 'translate_desc':
>> include/linux/compiler.h:549:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_1879' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)
>>
>> i386:allyesconfig, mips:allmodconfig and others, everywhere including
>> mainline. Culprit is commit a89db445fbd7f1 ("vhost: block speculation
>> of translated descriptors").
>
> Nope, I just got another report of this on 5.2.y. Problem is also in
> Linus's tree :(
>

Please apply upstream commit 0d4a3f2abbef ("Revert "vhost: block speculation
of translated descriptors") to v4.9.y-queue and later to fix the build problems.
Or maybe just drop the offending commit from the stable release queues.

Thanks,
Guenter