Re: [PATCH 6.0 000/289] 6.0.11-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 03:26:53 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:57:24PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 11:44:53AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 00:13, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.0.11 release.
> > > There are 289 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, 02 Dec 2022 18:05:05 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.0.11-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-6.0.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > Results from Linaro's test farm.
> > Regressions found on x86_64:
> >
> > - build-clang-15-allmodconfig-x86_64
> > - build-clang-nightly-allmodconfig-x86_64
> >
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > bpf: Convert BPF_DISPATCHER to use static_call() (not ftrace)
> > [ Upstream commit c86df29d11dfba27c0a1f5039cd6fe387fbf4239 ]
> >
> > Causing the following build warnings / errors with clang-15 allmodconfig
> > on x86_64,
> >
> > Build error:
> > make --silent --keep-going --jobs=8
> > O=/home/tuxbuild/.cache/tuxmake/builds/1/build LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
> > ARCH=x86_64 SRCARCH=x86 CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux-gnu-
> > 'HOSTCC=sccache clang' 'CC=sccache clang'
> > kernel/bpf/dispatcher.c:126:33: error: pointer type mismatch ('void *'
> > and 'unsigned int (*)(const void *, const struct bpf_insn *,
> > bpf_func_t)' (aka 'unsigned int (*)(const void *, const struct
> > bpf_insn *, unsigned int (*)(const void *, const struct bpf_insn
> > *))')) [-Werror,-Wpointer-type-mismatch]
> > __BPF_DISPATCHER_UPDATE(d, new ?: &bpf_dispatcher_nop_func);
> > ~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > include/linux/bpf.h:938:54: note: expanded from macro '__BPF_DISPATCHER_UPDATE'
> > __static_call_update((_d)->sc_key, (_d)->sc_tramp, (_new))
> > ^~~~
> > 1 error generated.
>
> Thanks for the report! This is fixed with upstream commit a679120edfcf
> ("bpf: Add explicit cast to 'void *' for __BPF_DISPATCHER_UPDATE()"),
> which was marked as a fix for c86df29d11df.

Now queued up. I forgot to run my "do we need fixes for the fixes"
script on the queues, sorry about that.

greg k-h