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

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

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

Guenter