Re: [PATCH 4.14 000/164] 4.14.6-stable review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 14 2017 - 03:00:46 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 09:49:32AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 07:48:43AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Hi Shuah and Greg,
> >>
> >> On 2017-12-12 15:47, Shuah Khan wrote:
> >> > On 12/12/2017 05:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.6 release.
> >> > > There are 164 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 Thu Dec 14 12:34:08 UTC 2017.
> >> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >> > >
> >> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >> > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.6-rc1.gz
> >> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.14.y
> >> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >> > >
> >> > > thanks,
> >> > >
> >> > > greg k-h
> >> > >
> >> > > Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> >> > > drm: safely free connectors from connector_iter
> >> > >
> >> > > Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > > drm/bridge: analogix dp: Fix runtime PM state in get_modes() callback
> >> > >
> >> > The above two patches have been found to be the cause of boot hang on
> >> > exynos Peach Pi(t) chromebooks.
> >> >
> >> > I am adding Daniel and Marek to the thread.
> >>
> >> The deadlock is caused by the Daniels patch. My patch only changes the order
> >> of device initialization what might hide or reveal bug related to Daniels
> >> patch.
> >
> > So should I revert Daniel's patch? Or is there already a fix for that
> > in Linus's tree?
>
> Not yet, still typing it. Hopefully all in time for -rc4. I think
> reverting it for now should be ok, I'll annotate the cc: stable lines
> for the new ones with a note that you need to re-cherry-pick it to
> make it all work.

Thanks, I've dropped this for now.

greg k-h