Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/160] 6.12.7-rc1 review

Marc Zyngier
2024-12-26T13:41:54Z

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:12:40 +0000,
Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 21:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.7 release.
> > There are 160 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, 27 Dec 2024 15:53:30 +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-6.12.7-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-6.12.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> The following test regressions found on arm64 selftests
> kvm kvm_set_id_regs.
>
> This was reported and fixed by a patch [1].
>
> * graviton4-metal, kselftest-kvm
> - kvm_set_id_regs
>
> * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-nvhe, kselftest-kvm
> - kvm_set_id_regs
>
> * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-protected, kselftest-kvm
> - kvm_set_id_regs
>
> * rk3399-rock-pi-4b-vhe, kselftest-kvm
> - kvm_set_id_regs
>
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

This is totally harmless, and if anything, indicates that the *fix*
is doing its job, and that this patch *must* be backported.

M.

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