Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/117] 5.15.90-rc2 review

From: Naresh Kamboju
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 19:29:06 EST


On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 15:22, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 15:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.90 release.
> > There are 117 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 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:48:53 +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-5.15.90-rc2.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
>
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> Regressions found on arm64 for both 5.15.90-rc2 and 5.10.165-rc2.
>
> * qemu-arm64-mte, kselftest-arm64
> - arm64_check_buffer_fill
> - arm64_check_child_memory
> - arm64_check_ksm_options
> - arm64_check_mmap_options
> - arm64_check_tags_inclusion
>
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We are in a process to bisecting this problem and there are updates coming
> from kselftest rootfs.

The above said regressions are due to the Qemu version upgrade to 7.2.

With reference to my previous emails,
This is not a kernel regression on stable-rc 6.1, 5.15, and 5.10.

- Naresh