Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/367] 5.4.257-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Sep 23 2023 - 04:26:17 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:20:17AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 9/20/23 10:21, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > On 9/20/23 04:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.257 release.
> > > There are 367 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, 22 Sep 2023 11:28:09 +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-5.4.257-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
> >
> > perf does not build with:
> >
> > libbpf.c: In function 'bpf_object__close':
> > libbpf.c:4205:15: error: 'struct bpf_object' has no member named 'btf_vmlinux'
> >   btf__free(obj->btf_vmlinux);
> >                ^~
> >
> > due to 34d66b750e83d49c7d3d33d59e6a1b49e0d5db15 ("libbpf: Free btf_vmlinux when closing bpf_object")
> >
> > the btf_vmlinux member was introduced with a6ed02cac690b635dbb938690e795812ce1e14ca ("libbpf: Load btf_vmlinux only once per object.") which is only in >= 5.6.
> >
> > Suggset we drop that commit.
>
>
> This problem affects 5.4, 5.10, and 5.15.

Now dropped from all of those queues, thanks.

greg k-h