Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/122] 5.10.245-rc1 review

Dan Carpenter
2025-10-01T12:10:32Z

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 12:50:13PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 12:57:27AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 20:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.245 release.
> > > There are 122 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, 02 Oct 2025 14:37:59 +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-5.10.245-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-5.10.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > The following LTP syscalls failed on stable-rc 5.10.
> > Noticed on both 5.10.243-rc1 and 5.10.245-rc1
> >
> > First seen on 5.10.243-rc1.
> >
> > ltp-syscalls
> > - fanotify13
> > - fanotify14
> > - fanotify15
> > - fanotify16
> > - fanotify21
> > - landlock04
> > - ioctl_ficlone02
> >
> > Test regression: LTP syscalls fanotify13/14/15/16/21 TBROK: mkfs.vfat
> > failed with exit code 1
> >
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> >
> > We are investigating and running bisections.
> >
> > ### Test log
> > tst_test.c:1888: TINFO: === Testing on vfat ===
> > tst_test.c:1217: TINFO: Formatting /dev/loop0 with vfat opts='' extra opts=''
> > mkfs.vfat: Partitions or virtual mappings on device '/dev/loop0', not
> > making filesystem (use -I to override)
> > tst_test.c:1217: TBROK: mkfs.vfat failed with exit code 1
> > HINT: You _MAY_ be missing kernel fixes:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c285a2f01d69
>
> You are not missing this "fix".
>
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc2473c90fca
>
> You are missing that one, but why is a overlayfs commit being cared
> about for vfat?
>
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c45beebfde34a
>
> Another overlayfs patch that is not backported that far. Again, why is
> this a hint for vfat?

That's test output, not something we added. LTP tests can have a list
of suggested commits. LTP doesn't know what kernel you're running, it
just prints out the list of commits.

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/syscalls/fanotify/fanotify13.c#L436

regards,
dan carpenter