Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/923] 5.15.3-rc3 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:26:31PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/17/21 4:16 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 03:50:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Sorry for top-posting and quoting this all, but the actual people
> > > involved with the wchan changes don't seem to be on the participant
> > > list.
> > 
> > Adding more folks from a private report and
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215031
> > 
> > and for the new people, here's a lore link for this thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/YZV02RCRVHIa144u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > 
> > FWIW, earlier bisection pointed to the stable backport of
> > 5d1ceb3969b6b2e47e2df6d17790a7c5a20fcbb4 being the primary culprit.
> > At first glance it seems to me that the problem with -stable is that an
> > unvetted subset of the wchan refactoring series landed in -stable.
> > 
> 
> Can the (partial) wchan backport possibly be dropped from v5.15.y until
> someone figures out what exactly - if anything - is needed ?

Now dropped.