Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/124] 5.8.15-rc1 review

From: Jeffrin Jose T
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 13:30:22 EST


* On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 15:30 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.15 release.
> There are 124 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, 14 Oct 2020 13:31:22 +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-5.8.15-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

hello,

Compiled and booted 5.8.15-rc1+ . No typical dmesg regression.
I also have something to mention here. I saw a warning related in
several kernels which looks like the following...

"MDS CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible"

But now in 5.8.15-rc1+ , that warning disappeared.

Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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