Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/132] 6.1.25-rc2 review

From: Ron Economos
Date: Wed Apr 19 2023 - 08:48:00 EST


On 4/19/23 4:58 AM, Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 19/04/2023 10:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.25 release.
There are 132 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, 21 Apr 2023 09:36:33 +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-6.1.25-rc2.gz
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

Alyssa Ross <hi@xxxxxxxxx>
purgatory: fix disabling debug info
Alyssa provided a custom backport of this that did not require
picking up Heiko's patch below, but it did not seem to get
picked up.
Lore is ~dead for me, so all I can give you here is her message-id
for the custom backport: <20230418155237.2ubcusqc52nufmow@x220>

Heiko's patch is dead code as you've (rightly) not backported
any of the users.
Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxx>
RISC-V: add infrastructure to allow different str* implementations


Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
riscv: Do not set initial_boot_params to the linear address of the dtb
This one should also be dropped, either the whole series or
none of it please!

Alex has said he'll send the lot in a way that avoids confusion.

Otherwise, my testing passed.

Thanks,
Conor.

The "riscv: Do not set initial_boot_params to the linear address of the dtb" patch is fatal. Definitely needs to be dropped.

[    0.000000] Hardware name: SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (DT)
[    0.000000] epc : fdt_check_header+0xe/0x230
[    0.000000]  ra : __unflatten_device_tree+0x4e/0x320
[    0.000000] epc : ffffffff80ae48e6 ra : ffffffff808bba16 sp : ffffffff81803e0
[    0.000000]  gp : ffffffff81a3d390 tp : ffffffff81811200 t0 : ffffffc6fefff00
[    0.000000]  t1 : 000000047fff0000 t2 : 65736552203a616d s0 : ffffffff81803e0
[    0.000000]  s1 : 0000000040000000 a0 : 0000000040000000 a1 : 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  a2 : ffffffff81a43188 a3 : ffffffff80c3fbd0 a4 : 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s2 : 00000000fff63036 s3 : ffffffff81a43188 s4 : 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s5 : ffffffff80c3fbd0 s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s8 : 00000000fff63036 s9 : 00000000fffcbf60 s10: 000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s11: 00000000fffcbf60 t3 : ffffffff80e12288 t4 : ffffffff80e1228
[    0.000000]  t5 : ffffffff80e12288 t6 : ffffffff80e122a0
[    0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000040000001 cause: 000000d
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80ae48e6>] fdt_check_header+0xe/0x230
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[    0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle -