Re: Build failures / crashes in stable queue branches

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 03:49:23PM +0000, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Hi Yu,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:21:46AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> [..]
> > ---------
> > 6.1.y:
> > 
> > Build reference: v6.1.38-393-gb6386e7314b4
> > Compiler version: alpha-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.4.0
> > Assembler version: GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.40
> > 
> > Building alpha:allmodconfig ... failed
> > Building m68k:allmodconfig ... failed
> > --------------
> > Error log:
> > <stdin>:1517:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
> > In file included from block/genhd.c:28:
> > block/genhd.c: In function 'disk_release':
> > include/linux/blktrace_api.h:88:57: error: statement with no effect [-Werror=unused-value]
> >    88 | # define blk_trace_remove(q)                            (-ENOTTY)
> >       |                                                         ^
> > block/genhd.c:1185:9: note: in expansion of macro 'blk_trace_remove'
> >  1185 |         blk_trace_remove(disk->queue);
> 
> 6.1 stable is broken and gives build warning without:
> 
> cbe7cff4a76b ("blktrace: use inline function for blk_trace_remove() while blktrace is disabled")
> 
> Could you please submit it to stable for 6.1? (I could have done that but it
> looks like you already backported related patches so its best for you to do
> it, thanks for your help!).

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h