Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/135] 5.10.192-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 07:24:29AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 07:07:52PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.192 release.
> > There are 135 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, 26 Aug 2023 17:05:50 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> 
> Testing is not complete, but early feedback: All riscv32 boot tests
> crash badly with errors such as
> 
> Starting syslogd: OK
> Starting klogd: OK
> /etc/init.d/S02sysctl: line 68: syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
> /etc/init.d/S20seedrng: line 33: syntax error: unexpected end of file (expecting ";;")
> Starting network: /bin/sh: syntax error: unterminated quoted string
> sed: unmatched '/'
> /bin/sh: syntax error: unterminated quoted string
> FAIL
> /etc/init.d/S55runtest: line 48: syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution
> 
> This is no longer seen after reverting the following patches.
> 
> 92609bb3a1f8 riscv: uaccess: Return the number of bytes effectively not copied
> e06648704417 riscv: lib: uaccess: fix CSR_STATUS SR_SUM bit
> 20704d763646 riscv: lib: uaccess: fold fixups into body
> 4f503bad920e riscv: __asm_copy_to-from_user: Optimize unaligned memory access and pipeline stall

Thanks for the review, I'll go drop all of the riscv patches here.
Really, we shouldn't be adding any of them to any kernels older than
5.15 these days as I do not think anyone using that cpu is using those
older kernels (or at least I sure hope not...)

thanks,

greg k-h