Re: [PATCH 6.4 000/165] 6.4.10-rc1 review

Naresh Kamboju
2023-08-11T03:25:24Z

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 16:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.4.10 release.
> There are 165 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 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:36:10 +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-6.4.10-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-6.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

While building Linux stable rc 6.4 x86_64 with clang-17 failed due to
following warnings / errors.

Regressions found on x86_64:

- build/clang-nightly-lkftconfig-kselftest
- build/clang-nightly-x86_64_defconfig
- build/clang-nightly-lkftconfig
- build/clang-lkftconfig
- build/clang-nightly-allmodconfig

Build errors:
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ld.lld: error: ./arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:193: at least one side of
the expression must be absolute
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:34: vmlinux] Error 1

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

upstream report:
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- https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/CA+G9fYsdUeNu-gwbs0+T6XHi4hYYk=Y9725-wFhZ7gJMspLDRA@mail.gmail.com/

Proposed fix patch:
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[PATCH] x86/srso: fix build breakage for LD=ld.lld
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230809-gds-v1-1-eaac90b0cbcc@google.com/T/

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Linaro LKFT