From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 056D82D5427 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750434109; cv=none; b=D6RBaOW6wyjHEwTf/HB/Er3PIBRz73v8p0WOAj+krCCejWD3SFl+NrkuCsxLnIGB6rQ8aZ0XYitGukHErrg1w6WC40pjCvWOJhWIBm9If+Hc2W7XWS7y5LfsE6yw6PQh7FohiyrW9zsobrJVP32En7y/ISSyKXejYdq+6WF+hJg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750434109; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZErKt9CrGjJ7o/P2DO49567cDCdPgDsw03ihINUsxXQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=jrwLZVb2Y8QLSrB96W4Jbuu7oUKXlipMUm26fAK0Mng5YAWxFT5xZ5anmq7CRPpshyn+Gd+K5k6otHcBYQx0n18lYHWDqglzrBa44dWHccDpT7L/MPYkEqJd7/JtFI0WLH74/+RNMwvZPTRCaSGMK1C7GtfChZbbuwAgMSa5R7o= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=vaHvBMDE; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="vaHvBMDE" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CF19C4CEEF; Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:41:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1750434108; bh=ZErKt9CrGjJ7o/P2DO49567cDCdPgDsw03ihINUsxXQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=vaHvBMDEk1vl8xjqC3cdg2Fl2hwo3a3ggK8ndZedMilFUcmtdObe34A6UW50th/iE sENQ/0QT8K58shFH98/8uRTOrSBUGoYzLBE3Sd1GkNlgHc//RgJXrA2Rm/UgCXZ6Vs 5RVfEpM6X2nx4FxdRx/u7DCkslOJqJUWfm08b9as= Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:41:45 +0200 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Sebastian Priebe Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD not default y in Linux 5.15.179+ Message-ID: <2025062007-fall-brim-a7ba@gregkh> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 07:28:25AM +0000, Sebastian Priebe wrote: > Hello, > > we're facing a regression after updating to 5.15.179+. > I've found that fbdee71bb5d8d054e1bdb5af4c540f2cb86fe296 (block: deprecate autoloading based on dev_t) was merged that disabled autoloading of modules. > > This broke mounting loopback devices on our side. > > Why wasn't 451f0b6f4c44d7b649ae609157b114b71f6d7875 (block: default BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD to y) merged, too? > > This commit was merged for 6.1.y, 6.6.y and 6.12y, but not for 5.15.y. > > Please consider merging this for 5.15.y soon. I'll queue this up now, but note, unless you are starting with a new fresh .config file, the default value change will probably not be noticed by 'make oldconfig' so you would probably have still hit this issue. thanks, greg k-h