Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/313] 5.4.251-rc1 review

From: Naresh Kamboju
Date: Tue Jul 25 2023 - 10:46:28 EST


On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 17:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.251 release.
> There are 313 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, 27 Jul 2023 10:44:26 +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-5.4.251-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

Following commit caused build failures on stable-rc 5.4 and 5.10.

ext4: fix to check return value of freeze_bdev() in ext4_shutdown()
commit c4d13222afd8a64bf11bc7ec68645496ee8b54b9 upstream.

fs/ext4/ioctl.c:595:7: error: incompatible pointer to integer
conversion assigning to 'int' from 'struct super_block *'
[-Wint-conversion]
ret = freeze_bdev(sb->s_bdev);
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>

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