Re: [PATCH 6.4 00/28] 6.4.1-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 - 01:52:15 EST


On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:00:51AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 00:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.4.1 release.
> > There are 28 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 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:41:39 +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-6.4.1-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-6.4.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
>
> Following build regression noticed on Linux stable-rc 6.4 and also noticed on
> Linux mainline master.
>
> Regressions found on Parisc and Sparc build failed:
> - build/gcc-11-defconfig
>
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Parisc Build log:
> =============
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c: In function 'do_page_fault':
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: error: 'prev' undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> 292 | if (!prev || !(prev->vm_flags & VM_GROWSUP))
> | ^~~~
> arch/parisc/mm/fault.c:292:22: note: each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once for each function it appears in
>
>
> sparc Build log:
> ===========
> <stdin>:1519:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c: In function 'force_user_fault':
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:315:49: error: 'regs' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> 315 | vma = lock_mm_and_find_vma(mm, address, regs);
> | ^~~~
> arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:315:49: note: each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once for each function it appears in
>
>
> Links:
> - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959811/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/details/
> - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959811/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/log
>
> - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959890/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/details/
> - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.4.y/build/v6.4-29-g8e5ddb853f08/testrun/17959890/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/log
>
>
> Both build failures noticed on mainline and sparc build have been
> fixed yesterday.
> - https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-mainline-master/build/v6.4-8542-g82a2a5105589/testrun/17963192/suite/build/test/gcc-11-defconfig/history/
>
>
> Following patch that got fixed
> ---
> >From 0b26eadbf200abf6c97c6d870286c73219cdac65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:41:24 -0700
> Subject: sparc32: fix lock_mm_and_find_vma() conversion
>
> The sparc32 conversion to lock_mm_and_find_vma() in commit a050ba1e7422
> ("mm/fault: convert remaining simple cases to lock_mm_and_find_vma()")
> missed the fact that we didn't actually have a 'regs' pointer available
> in the 'force_user_fault()' case.
>
> It's there in the regular page fault path ("do_sparc_fault()"), but not
> the window underflow/overflow paths.
>
> Which is all fine - we can just pass in a NULL pointer. The register
> state is only used to avoid deadlock with kernel faults, which is not
> the case for any of these register window faults.
>
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: a050ba1e7422 ("mm/fault: convert remaining simple cases to
> lock_mm_and_find_vma()")
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! That saves me having to dig. I'll go push out updates with
this in them...

greg k-h