Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/51] 5.4.217-rc1 review

From: Daniel Díaz
Date: Wed Oct 05 2022 - 15:12:56 EST


Hello!

On 05/10/22 06:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.217 release.
There are 51 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 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:31:56 +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-5.4.217-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-5.4.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

We are seeing a new warning on x86_64:

/builds/linux/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
/builds/linux/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1756: Warning: no instruction mnemonic suffix given and no register operands; using default for `sysret'
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o: warning: objtool: .entry.text+0x151: unsupported intra-function call
x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.o: warning: relocation in read-only section `.head.text'
x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: creating DT_TEXTREL in a PIE

This started happening after 984b78c4ecea49b0b4b5729a502b689a623fde27 ("x86/speculation: Fix RSB filling with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n").

The following configurations are affected:

* x86_64, build
- gcc-8-allnoconfig-warnings
- gcc-8-tinyconfig-warnings
- gcc-8-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- gcc-9-allnoconfig-warnings
- gcc-9-tinyconfig-warnings
- gcc-9-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- gcc-10-allnoconfig-warnings
- gcc-10-defconfig-warnings
- gcc-10-tinyconfig-warnings
- gcc-11-allnoconfig-warnings
- gcc-11-defconfig-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-debug-kmemleak-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-debug-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-kasan-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-kselftest-kernel-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-kselftest-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-kunit-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-libgpiod-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-perf-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-rcutorture-warnings
- gcc-11-lkftconfig-warnings
- gcc-11-tinyconfig-warnings
- gcc-12-allnoconfig-warnings
- gcc-12-defconfig-warnings
- gcc-12-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-11-allnoconfig-warnings
- clang-11-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-11-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- clang-12-allnoconfig-warnings
- clang-12-lkftconfig-warnings
- clang-12-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-12-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- clang-13-allnoconfig-warnings
- clang-13-lkftconfig-warnings
- clang-13-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-13-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- clang-14-allnoconfig-warnings
- clang-14-lkftconfig-kcsan-warnings
- clang-14-lkftconfig-warnings
- clang-14-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-14-x86_64_defconfig-warnings
- clang-nightly-lkftconfig-warnings
- clang-nightly-tinyconfig-warnings
- clang-nightly-x86_64_defconfig-warnings


Greetings!

Daniel Díaz
daniel.diaz@xxxxxxxxxx