Re: [PATCH 5.18 0/6] 5.18.19-rc1 review

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

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 11:03 AM Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)
> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > -------------------
> > > NOTE, this is the LAST 5.18.y stable release.  This tree will be
> > > end-of-life after this one.  Please move to 5.19.y at this point in time
> > > or let us know why that is not possible.
> > > -------------------
> > >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.18.19 release.
> > > There are 6 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 Sun, 21 Aug 2022 15:36:59 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >
> > powerpc failure is not seen in mainline. Same error as csky and mips.
> >
> > In function 'memcmp',
> >     inlined from 'bacmp' at ./include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:302:9,
> >     inlined from 'l2cap_global_chan_by_psm' at net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:2002:15:
> > ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:44:33: error: '__builtin_memcmp' specified bound 6 exceeds source size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
> >    44 | #define __underlying_memcmp     __builtin_memcmp
> >       |                                 ^
> > ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:404:16: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_memcmp'
> >   404 |         return __underlying_memcmp(p, q, size);
> >       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In function 'memcmp',
> >     inlined from 'bacmp' at ./include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:302:9,
> >     inlined from 'l2cap_global_chan_by_psm' at net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:2003:15:
> > ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:44:33: error: '__builtin_memcmp' specified bound 6 exceeds source size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
> >    44 | #define __underlying_memcmp     __builtin_memcmp
> >       |                                 ^
> > ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:404:16: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_memcmp'
> >   404 |         return __underlying_memcmp(p, q, size);
> >       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > I am bisecting now to find out what caused it.
> 
> Introduced in v5.18.18 due to 11e008e59970 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix
> l2cap_global_chan_by_psm regression").
> But v5.19.y and mainline does not show the build failure as they also
> have 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S 64-bit outline-only KASAN
> support").

Ick, that's a mess.  This is going to be the last 5.18 tree, so I'm just
going to leave this alone...

thanks,

greg k-h