Re: Linux 4.19.153

[Eddie Chapman <eddie@ehuk.net>]

On 30/10/2020 14:44, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 10:14:16AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:49:15AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 09:26:54AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> > Hi!
>>> >
>>> > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.19.153 kernel.
>>> > >
>>> > > All users of the 4.19 kernel series must upgrade.
>>> > >
>>> > > The updated 4.19.y git tree can be found at:
>>> > >     
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git 
>>> linux-4.19.y
>>> > > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
>>> > >     
>>> https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary 
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Did something go seriously wrong here?
>>> >
>>> > The original 4.19.153-rc1 series had 264 patches. "powerpc/tau: Remove
>>> > duplicated set_thresholds() call" is 146/264 of the series, but it is
>>> > last one in 4.19.153 as released. "178/264 ext4: limit entries
>>> > returned when counting...", for example, is not present in
>>> > 4.19.153... as are others, for example "net: korina: cast KSEG0
>>> > address to pointer in kfree". Looks like 118 or so patches are
>>> > missing.
>>> >
>>> > They are not in origin/queue/4.19, either.
>>>
>>> Wow, something did go wrong here, thanks for catching this.
>>>
>>> Let me dig and see what happened, the whole series did not apply, which
>>> makes me wonder if the same thing happened for other branches as well...
>>>
>>> thanks for checking up and finding this.
>>>
>>> Give me a bit...
>>
>> Ok, figure3d it out.
>>
>> Sasha changed a powerpc patch to build properly but didn't realize that
>> later powerpc patches would not apply because of that.  I didn't run my
>> "apply all patches to make sure they are clean" script before doing the
>> release after he did that, so 'git quiltimport' failed when applying the
>> series at the place where the powerpc path failed to apply.
>>
>> My scripts don't check for the result of 'git quiltimport' being
>> successful or not (I don't even know if it return an error for this type
>> of thing), and just moved on in the release process.
>>
>> I'll go do a new 4.19 release with the rest of the patches missed here,
>> thank you for finding this.
>>
>> And I'll go make my release scripts more robust to failures like this as
>> well.
>>
>> thanks so much!
> 
> You're right, sorry :( And thanks Pavel!

Hey Greg and Sasha, just want to express my gratitude for all the work 
you guys do maintaining a gazillion stable kernels :-) There is bound to 
be a hiccup in the process every once in a while.