Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/551] 5.15.198-rc2 review

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

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:36:37PM -0800, Ron Economos wrote:
> On 1/16/26 03:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.198 release.
> > There are 551 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, 18 Jan 2026 11:09:20 +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-5.15.198-rc2.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> My HiFive Unmatched target (which has a Cadence Ethernet controller) fails to start the network interface with the following messages:
> 
> [  121.778662] macb 10090000.ethernet end0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
> [  122.373760] macb 10090000.ethernet end0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
> [  122.383421] macb 10090000.ethernet end0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
> [  122.389481] macb 10090000.ethernet end0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
> [  122.610641] macb 10090000.ethernet end0: inconsistent Rx descriptor chain
> 
> Reverting commit "net: macb: Relocate mog_init_rings() callback from
> macb_mac_link_up() to macb_open()" f934e5d7caad6ae0a081352e91cbd7f0284ad9b3
> solves the issue.

Thanks for the info, I'll go drop this from 5.15.y and 5.10.y as well.

greg k-h