From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751149AbdLIHpj (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2017 02:45:39 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59278 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750952AbdLIHpi (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2017 02:45:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 08:45:44 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Ivan Kozik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net, Shuah Khan , patches@kernelci.org, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/75] 4.14.5-stable review Message-ID: <20171209074544.GA1770@kroah.com> References: <20171207130818.742746317@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 03:34:24AM +0000, Ivan Kozik wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.5 release. > > There are 75 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 Sat Dec 9 13:07:57 UTC 2017. > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > I saw no problems on 8 of 9 machines, but the last one had a problem > because it used NVIDIA drivers (387); DKMS reported: > > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only > symbol 'ex_handler_refcount' > //usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-11-common/scripts/Makefile.modpost:92: > recipe for target '__modpost' failed > make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 Is this a new issue? Does 4.14.4 have this issue? > The drivers built fine after rebuilding Linux with [PATCH] > locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/1110 > > which appears to be in Linus' tree as b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f Odd, is 564c9cc84e2a ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text section for refcount exceptions") causing this? thanks, greg k-h