Re: [PATCH 6.3 000/694] 6.3.2-rc2 review

[Rudi Heitbaum]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 05:30, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 20:28, Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 03:56:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:10:32PM +0000, Rudi Heitbaum wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 08:06:58AM +0000, Rudi Heitbaum wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 05:26:44AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.3.2 release.
> > > > > > There are 694 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 Thu, 11 May 2023 03:05:05 +0000.
> > > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > >
> > > > > 6.3.2-rc2 tested.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > >
> > > > Further testing and have seen ntfs3: NULL pointer dereference with ntfs_lookup errors
> > > > with 6.3.2-rc2 (I have not seen this error before.) No other errors in the logs.
> > >
> > > Can you reproduce this without the extern, gpl-violation module loaded?
>
> Please share the steps to reproduce
>  test case / Kconfigs / device under test environment / firmware / boot loaders.

Hi Naresh,

Test case:
- general use - no specific case

Test device:
LibreELEC with docker used as media player with docker for development
/ package testing for LibreELEC
[    0.000000] microcode: updated early: 0x421 -> 0x429, date = 2023-01-11
[    0.000000] DMI: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC12WSKi7/NUC12WSBi7,
BIOS WSADL357.0085.2022.0718.1739 07/18/2022

ntfs3 volume is:
/dev/sdb2 on /var/media/L-Z type ntfs3
(rw,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0133,iocharset=utf8)

                 *-usb:1
                      description: Mass storage device
                      product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
                      vendor: JMicron
                      physical id: 2
                      bus info: usb@4:2.2
                      logical name: scsi1
                      version: 5.08
                      serial:
                      capabilities: usb-3.00 scsi
                      configuration: driver=uas maxpower=896mA speed=5000Mbit/s
                    *-disk
                         description: SCSI Disk
                         product: Generic
                         vendor: JMicron
                         physical id: 0.0.0
                         bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                         logical name: /dev/sdb
                         version: 0508
                         serial:
                         size: 10TiB (12TB)
                         capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
                         configuration: ansiversion=6
guid=7fe84503-eeb0-4ee6-806d-9cbe22dc50f2 logicalsectorsize=512
sectorsize=4096
                       *-volume:0
                            description: reserved partition
                            vendor: Windows
                            physical id: 1
                            bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1
                            logical name: /dev/sdb1
                            serial:
                            capacity: 15MiB
                            capabilities: nofs
                            configuration: name=Microsoft reserved partition
                       *-volume:1
                            description: Windows NTFS volume
                            vendor: Windows
                            physical id: 2
                            bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,2
                            logical name: /dev/sdb2
                            logical name: /var/media/L-Z
                            version: 3.1
                            serial:
                            size: 935GiB
                            capacity: 10TiB
                            capabilities: ntfs initialized
                            configuration: clustersize=4096
created=2022-10-01 10:18:29 filesystem=ntfs label=L-Z
mount.fstype=ntfs3
mount.options=rw,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0133,iocharset=utf8
name=Basic data partition state=mounted

Operating system:
- LibreELEC - https://libreelec.tv/ (master+ branch)

Boot loader:
- syslinux

Kconfig:
- https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/blob/master/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf

> - Naresh