Re: [PATCH 5.18 00/61] 5.18.12-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 04:33:24PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 00:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.18.12 release.
> > There are 61 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, 14 Jul 2022 18:32:19 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.18.12-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-5.18.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> Regressions on x86_64 (and still validating results)
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 1) kernel panic on x86_64 while running kvm-unit-tests.
>    - APIC base relocation is unsupported by KVM

Seems others are hitting this too:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAMGffEm9y0wnn8LNS9Qo3obPhs0GD5iJZ0WejFzC4baGPDsYTw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Does this also happen right now on Linus's tree?

> 2) qemu_x86_64 boot warning
>    - WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:558
> apply_returns+0x19c/0x1d0

Warning, but does everything still work?

And again, still on Linus's tree?

> 3) New warnings noticed while building perf
>    - Warning: Kernel ABI header at
> 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h' differs from latest
> version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h'

Ick, I'll wait for that to get synced in Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h