Re: [PATCH 6.6 000/175] 6.6.131-rc1 review

["Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>]

On Thu Apr 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM CEST, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Thu Apr 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM BST, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:19:44 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.131 release.
>>> > There are 175 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 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:16:56 +0000.
>>> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>> 
>>> The pin-init change does not build:
>>> 
>>>     error[E0425]: cannot find value `__refcount_guard` in this scope
>>>         --> rust/kernel/init/macros.rs:1320:25
>>>          |
>>>     1320 |                   @guards([< __ $field _guard >], $($guards,)*),
>>>          |                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in this scope
>>>          |
>>>         ::: rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs:529:49
>>>          |
>>>     529  |           let inner = Box::try_init::<AllocError>(try_init!(ArcInner {
>>>          |  _________________________________________________-
>>>     530  | |             // SAFETY: There are no safety requirements for this FFI call.
>>>     531  | |             refcount: Opaque::new(unsafe { bindings::REFCOUNT_INIT(1) }),
>>>     532  | |             data <- init::uninit::<T, AllocError>(),
>>>     533  | |         }? AllocError))?;
>>>          | |______________________- in this macro invocation
>>>          |
>>>          = note: this error originates in the macro `$crate::__init_internal` which comes from the expansion of the macro `try_init` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
>>> 
>>> (among other errors)
>>> 
>>> I would suggest dropping these for now:
>>> 
>>>     0565326613fa ("rust: pin-init: internal: init: document load-bearing fact of field accessors")
>>>     66655aacfa42 ("rust: pin-init: add references to previously initialized fields")
>>> 
>>> Cc: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
>>
>> Crap, I just did a realease.  Let me go revert these and do a new
>> release with that fixed, sorry about that, I guess my builds weren't
>> testing rust on older kernels, my fault :(

I don't know what happened with this series :( Sorry for the extra work.

> It is probably missing a dependency patch. I could take a look next week, but
> perhaps not backporting to 6.6 is an easier solution :)

Yeah let's do that.


Cheers,
Benno