Re: [PATCH 5.4 000/204] 5.4.294-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 at 19:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.294 release.
> There are 204 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, 04 Jun 2025 13:42:20 +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-5.4.294-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-5.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>

NOTE:
As other reported,
Here is the build warning on arm with clang-20 and gcc-12

kernel/trace/trace.c:6334:8: warning: comparison of distinct pointer
types ('typeof ((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq)) *' (aka 'unsigned
int *') and 'typeof (((1UL) << 12)) *' (aka 'unsigned long *'))
[-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types]
 6334 |
min((size_t)trace_seq_used(&iter->seq),
      |
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 6335 |                                                   PAGE_SIZE));
      |                                                   ~~~~~~~~~~

This build warning is due to,
  tracing: Fix oob write in trace_seq_to_buffer()
  commit f5178c41bb43444a6008150fe6094497135d07cb upstream.

## Build arm log
Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2xxMDrYnM37m3B0qZbAdLmnoeQ6/
Build config: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2xxMDrYnM37m3B0qZbAdLmnoeQ6/config

## steps to reproduce
 - tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm --toolchain clang-20
--kconfig vexpress_defconfig LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0

## Build
* kernel: 5.4.294-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git commit: dbf9e583326d679bc41fbbee9302d2f0ec8e01b2
* git describe: v5.4.293-205-gdbf9e583326d
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y/build/v5.4.293-205-gdbf9e583326d

## Test Regressions (compared to v5.4.292-180-gd5e62da0f6d5)

## Metric Regressions (compared to v5.4.292-180-gd5e62da0f6d5)

## Test Fixes (compared to v5.4.292-180-gd5e62da0f6d5)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v5.4.292-180-gd5e62da0f6d5)

## Test result summary
total: 45395, pass: 32893, fail: 2231, skip: 10140, xfail: 131

## Build Summary
* arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 131 total, 131 passed, 0 failed
* arm64: 31 total, 29 passed, 2 failed
* i386: 18 total, 13 passed, 5 failed
* mips: 25 total, 25 passed, 0 failed
* parisc: 3 total, 0 passed, 3 failed
* powerpc: 26 total, 26 passed, 0 failed
* riscv: 9 total, 3 passed, 6 failed
* s390: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed
* sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed
* x86_64: 27 total, 27 passed, 0 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-exec
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-x86
* kunit
* lava
* libhugetlbfs
* log-parser-boot
* log-parser-build-clang
* log-parser-build-gcc
* log-parser-test
* ltp-capability
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-cpuhotplug
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-dio
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-ipc
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* perf
* rcutorture

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