Re: [PATCH 6.15 000/780] 6.15.3-rc1 review

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

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 04:15:09PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> On 2025-06-18 15:19:11+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:58:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.15.3 release.
> > > > There are 780 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.
> > > 
> > > This breaks the build of the arm64 selftests due to a change in nolibc,
> > > it appears that "tools/nolibc: properly align dirent buffer" is missing
> > > some dependency:
> > > 
> > > aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -s -Os -nostdlib \
> > > 	-include ../../../../include/nolibc/nolibc.h -I../..\
> > > 	-static -ffreestanding -Wall za-fork.c /build/stage/build-work/kselftest/arm64/fp/za-fork-asm.o -o /build/stage/build-work/kselftest/arm64/fp/za-fork
> > > In file included from ./../../../../include/nolibc/nolibc.h:107,
> > >                  from <command-line>:
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h: In function ‘readdir_r’:
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:64: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__nolibc_aligned_as’
> > >    62 |         char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1] __nolibc_aligned_as(struct linux_dirent64);
> > >       |                                                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:64: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__nolibc_aligned_as’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:84: error: expected expression before ‘struct’
> > >    62 |         char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1] __nolibc_aligned_as(struct linux_dirent64);
> > >       |                                                                                    ^~~~~~
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:63:47: error: ‘buf’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> > >    63 |         struct linux_dirent64 *ldir = (void *)buf;
> > >       |                                               ^~~
> > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:63:47: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> > 
> > Thanks for the report, I'll go drop all nolibc patches from the queues
> > for now.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Shouldn't the bots apply prerequisite patches from the series automatically?

Hopefully yes, obviously it doesn't always work :)

> This patch comes from [0] and the prerequisite is in there.
> 
> Also all nolibc patches which should go to stable are tagged as such.
> Can you configure the bots not to pick up any nolibc patches automatically?

Yes we can!  I will add the needed regex to the file:
	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list
should it be:
	tools/include/nolibc/*
	tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/*
?

thanks,

greg k-h