Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/115] 5.4.215-rc2 review

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

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:18:14PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sept 2022 at 22:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.215 release.
> > There are 115 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 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:35:25 +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-5.4.215-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-5.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Results from Linaro's test farm.
> No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
> 
> Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> 
> NOTE:
> Following powerpc mpc83xx defconfig with new gcc-12 build warnings.
> 
> kernel/extable.c: In function 'sort_main_extable':
> kernel/extable.c:37:59: warning: comparison between two arrays [-Warray-compare]
>    37 |         if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table >
> __start___ex_table) {
>       |                                                           ^
> kernel/extable.c:37:59: note: use '&__stop___ex_table[0] >
> &__start___ex_table[0]' to compare the addresses
> arch/powerpc/boot/main.c: In function 'prep_initrd':
> arch/powerpc/boot/main.c:107:25: warning: comparison between two
> arrays [-Warray-compare]
>   107 |         if (_initrd_end > _initrd_start) {
>       |                         ^

Is this a new warning?

I don't think anyone is attempting to build 5.4 with gcc12 just yet...

thanks,

greg k-h