Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/39] 4.19.278-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 3/15/23 08:44, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 15/03/23 06:12, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.278 release.
>> There are 39 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, 17 Mar 2023 11:57:10 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.278-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-4.19.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
> 
> Lots and lots of failures, mostly Arm.
> 
> For Arm, Arm64, MIPS, with GCC-8, GCC-9, GCC-10, GCC-11, GCC-12, Clang-16, for some combinations with:
> * axm55xx_defconfig
> * davinci_all_defconfig
> * defconfig
> * defconfig-40bc7ee5
> * lkftconfig-kasan
> * multi_v5_defconfig
> * s5pv210_defconfig
> * sama5_defconfig
> 
> -----8<-----
> /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2237:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_online_cpus' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>          get_online_cpus();
>          ^
> /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2237:2: note: did you mean 'get_online_mems'?
> /builds/linux/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:258:20: note: 'get_online_mems' declared here
> static inline void get_online_mems(void) {}
>                     ^
> /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2248:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'put_online_cpus' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>          put_online_cpus();
>          ^
> /builds/linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2248:2: note: did you mean 'put_online_mems'?
> /builds/linux/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:259:20: note: 'put_online_mems' declared here
> static inline void put_online_mems(void) {}
>                     ^
> 2 errors generated.
> make[3]: *** [/builds/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:303: kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o] Error 1
> ----->8-----
> 
> 
> For Arm64, i386 x86, with GCC-11, Perf has a new error:
> 
> -----8<-----
> In function 'ready',
>      inlined from 'sender' at bench/sched-messaging.c:90:2:
> bench/sched-messaging.c:76:13: error: 'dummy' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
>     76 |         if (write(ready_out, &dummy, 1) != 1)
>        |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from bench/../perf-sys.h:5,
>                   from bench/../perf.h:18,
>                   from bench/sched-messaging.c:13:
> ----->8-----
> 
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> Daniel Díaz
> daniel.diaz@linaro.org
> 

Looks like this whole set of release candidates is a disaster. I have stopped
my testbed for the time being (no point in wasting energy), so there won't be
any further updates from me for the time being.

Guenter