Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/50] 4.14.217-rc1 review

Naresh Kamboju
2021-01-22T15:23:14Z

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.217 release.
> There are 50 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, 24 Jan 2021 13:57:23 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.217-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-4.14.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

MIPS: cavium_octeon_defconfig and nlm_xlp_defconfig builds breaks
due to this patch on 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4

> Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> MIPS: Fix malformed NT_FILE and NT_SIGINFO in 32bit coredumps

Build error:
arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c:116:
/arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function 'fill_siginfo_note':
/arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c:1575:23: error: passing
argument 1 of 'copy_siginfo_to_user' from incompatible pointer type
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
copy_siginfo_to_user((user_siginfo_t __user *) csigdata, siginfo);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MIPS build failed
* gcc-10-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
* gcc-10-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
* gcc-8-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
* gcc-8-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
* gcc-9-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
* gcc-9-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED

Build log link,
https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc/-/jobs/980489009#L162

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