Re: [PATCH 5.8 00/70] 5.8.18-rc1 review

Naresh Kamboju
2020-11-01T07:20:01Z

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 17:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> -------------------------
> Note, this is going to be the LAST 5.8.y kernel release. After this
> one, this branch is now end-of-life. Please move to the 5.9.y branch at
> this point in time.
> -------------------------
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.18 release.
> There are 70 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 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:34:42 +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-5.8.18-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-5.8.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

NOTE:
LTP version upgrade to 20200930. Due to this change we have noticed few test
failures and fixes which are not related to kernel changes.

Summary
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kernel: 5.8.18-rc1
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-5.8.y
git commit: 46e8244bb94fd0c961f1df918b14b2d3a3970398
git describe: v5.8.17-71-g46e8244bb94f
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.8.y/build/v5.8.17-71-g46e8244bb94f

No regressions (compared to build v5.8.17)

No fixes (compared to build v5.8.17)

Fixes (compared to LTP 20200515)
These fixes are coming from LTP upgrade 20200930.

ltp-commands-tests:
* logrotate_sh

ltp-containers-tests:
* netns_netlink

ltp-controllers-tests:
* cpuset_hotplug

ltp-crypto-tests:
* af_alg02

ltp-cve-tests:
* cve-2017-17805
* cve-2018-1000199

ltp-syscalls-tests:
* clock_gettime03
* clone302
* copy_file_range02
* mknod07
* ptrace08
* syslog01
* syslog02
* syslog03
* syslog04
* syslog05
* syslog07
* syslog08
* syslog09
* syslog10

ltp-open-posix-tests:
* clocks_invaliddates

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