Re: [PATCH 6.15 000/780] 6.15.3-rc1 review

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Thu Jun 19 2025 - 01:50:57 EST


On 2025-06-19 06:19:52+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 04:15:09PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > On 2025-06-18 15:19:11+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:58:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 05:15:08PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.15.3 release.
> > > > > There are 780 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.
> > > >
> > > > This breaks the build of the arm64 selftests due to a change in nolibc,
> > > > it appears that "tools/nolibc: properly align dirent buffer" is missing
> > > > some dependency:
> > > >
> > > > aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -s -Os -nostdlib \
> > > > -include ../../../../include/nolibc/nolibc.h -I../..\
> > > > -static -ffreestanding -Wall za-fork.c /build/stage/build-work/kselftest/arm64/fp/za-fork-asm.o -o /build/stage/build-work/kselftest/arm64/fp/za-fork
> > > > In file included from ./../../../../include/nolibc/nolibc.h:107,
> > > > from <command-line>:
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h: In function ‘readdir_r’:
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:64: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__nolibc_aligned_as’
> > > > 62 | char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1] __nolibc_aligned_as(struct linux_dirent64);
> > > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:64: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__nolibc_aligned_as’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:62:84: error: expected expression before ‘struct’
> > > > 62 | char buf[sizeof(struct linux_dirent64) + NAME_MAX + 1] __nolibc_aligned_as(struct linux_dirent64);
> > > > | ^~~~~~
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:63:47: error: ‘buf’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > > 63 | struct linux_dirent64 *ldir = (void *)buf;
> > > > | ^~~
> > > > ./../../../../include/nolibc/dirent.h:63:47: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> > >
> > > Thanks for the report, I'll go drop all nolibc patches from the queues
> > > for now.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Shouldn't the bots apply prerequisite patches from the series automatically?
>
> Hopefully yes, obviously it doesn't always work :)

Is there something we can do to help the tools?

> > This patch comes from [0] and the prerequisite is in there.
> >
> > Also all nolibc patches which should go to stable are tagged as such.
> > Can you configure the bots not to pick up any nolibc patches automatically?
>
> Yes we can! I will add the needed regex to the file:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list
> should it be:
> tools/include/nolibc/*
> tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/*
> ?

Looks good, thanks.


Thomas