Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/50] 4.14.217-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:50:43PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.217 release.
> > There are 50 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, 24 Jan 2021 13:57:23 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.217-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
> 
> MIPS: cavium_octeon_defconfig and nlm_xlp_defconfig builds breaks
> due to this patch on 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4
> 
> > Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     MIPS: Fix malformed NT_FILE and NT_SIGINFO in 32bit coredumps
> 
> Build error:
> arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c:116:
> /arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function 'fill_siginfo_note':
> /arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c:1575:23: error: passing
> argument 1 of 'copy_siginfo_to_user' from incompatible pointer type
> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>   copy_siginfo_to_user((user_siginfo_t __user *) csigdata, siginfo);
>                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> MIPS build failed
>     * gcc-10-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
>     * gcc-10-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
>     * gcc-8-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
>     * gcc-8-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
>     * gcc-9-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
>     * gcc-9-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
> 
> Build log link,
> https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc/-/jobs/980489009#L162

Ugh, I had already dropped that from other kernels before, forgot to do
so here, sorry about, will go do that now and push out -rc2 for all 3 of
these branches.

thanks,

greg k-h