Re: [PATCH 6.17 000/371] 6.17.4-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 04:04:23PM -0700, Ron Economos wrote:
> On 10/17/25 07:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.4 release.
> > There are 371 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, 19 Oct 2025 14:50:59 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.17.4-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-6.17.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Build fails for RISC-V with:
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/pgtable.h:6,
>                  from ./include/linux/mm.h:31,
>                  from arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c:8:
> ./arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h:963:21: error: redefinition of
> 'pudp_huge_get_and_clear'
>   963 | static inline pud_t pudp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
>       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h:946:21: note: previous definition of
> 'pudp_huge_get_and_clear' with type 'pud_t(struct mm_struct *, long unsigned
> int,  pud_t *)'
>   946 | static inline pud_t pudp_huge_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
>       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Reverting 06536c4857271eeb19d76dbb4af989e2654a94e0 riscv: use an atomic xchg
> in pudp_huge_get_and_clear() fixes the build.
> 
> The problem is that this patch was already applied to 6.17 just before
> release, so the function pudp_huge_get_and_clear() ends up being duplicated
> in the file.

Thanks, I'll go drop this patch now, thanks.

greg k-h