Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/177] 5.8.10-rc1 review

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 10:39:50 EST


On 9/16/20 11:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:34:52AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 9/16/20 9:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 08:26:48AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 9/16/20 12:29 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:54:24PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 9/15/20 3:06 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 9/15/20 8:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.10 release.
There are 177 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, 17 Sep 2020 14:06:12 +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-5.8.10-rc1.gz

or in the git tree and branch at:
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
linux-5.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h


Compiled and booted fine. wifi died:

ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not init core (-110)
ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)

This is regression from 5.8.9 and 5.9-rc5 works just fine.

I will try to bisect later this evening to see if I can isolate the
commit.


The following commit is what caused ath10k_pci driver problem
that killed wifi.

Prateek Sood <prsood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
firmware_loader: fix memory leak for paged buffer

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/commit/?h=linux-5.8.y&id=ec0a59266c9c9f46037efd3dcc0323973e102271

Ugh, that's not good, is this also a problem in 5.9-rc5 as well? For
reference, this is commit 4965b8cd1bc1 ("firmware_loader: fix memory
leak for paged buffer") in Linus's tree.


I am not seeing this on Linux 5.9-rc5 for sure.

And it should be showing up in 5.4.y at the moment too, as this patch is
in that tree right now...


I don't see this patch in 4.19.146-rc1

It's not there, it's in 5.4.66-rc1, which worked for you somehow, right?

Linus's tree works for with this patch in. I compared the two files
for differences in commit between Linus's tree and 5.8.10-rc1

Couldn't find anything obvious.

Again, really odd...

I don't have a problem dropping it, but I should drop it from both 5.4.y
and 5.8.y, right?


Sorry. Yes. Dropping from 5.8 and 5.4 would be great until we figure out
why this patch causes problems.

I will continue debugging and let you know what I find.


With this it boots and wifi is good for me. I am very puzzled by why
this made a difference to make sure I am not narrowing in on the wrong
patch.

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah