From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74EBC43612 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:38:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BF720859 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:38:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1547044724; bh=CS7hX7fiaKoLq6y53UHrQDz/4hKwSLI86hyOFZUpbX0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=OVLCnP+nMOTBhf/P61srlb2Z0RFf9TnewzhFOuqAVu5tZYI8RUacyjbPAwbdtOro3 pACWWUMbfO4GwZIDzjDPmuxyqJd9eOwyPbXBwhD90d6s2EN1/g4JGTxEWCtksa/njf 5FjwF53Bl2mmh7VmUtWtkFI/SuZuMG8BhWoRjgFU= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731591AbfAIOio (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:38:44 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46428 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730017AbfAIOin (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:38:43 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77800206BA; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:38:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1547044723; bh=CS7hX7fiaKoLq6y53UHrQDz/4hKwSLI86hyOFZUpbX0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KOm2uEj72bXe/PfbDX/ug6gjP+5uBye676IPKc0ofHYS7wa6X7SUDYAEgFEJa9LEh /EC/pOfIXZ6OxTm1oNcPx86UnZeO8uuk8NjxV1rGUtWZFZK0ify8aIqhvEYQh85WwS oAbq33wbaexV5uD2N/QEti5Pd2KKTCVBOcc9gGTU= Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:38:40 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Breno Leitao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review Message-ID: <20190109143840.GC29274@kroah.com> References: <20190107104452.953560660@linuxfoundation.org> <20190108172503.GA28031@roeck-us.net> <20190108175640.GA2461@kroah.com> <20190108180951.GB28031@roeck-us.net> <20190108181322.GA4194@kroah.com> <20190108182938.GA19265@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20190108182938.GA19265@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.2 (2019-01-07) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:29:38AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 07:13:22PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:09:51AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 06:56:40PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:25:03AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:30:27PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.14 release. > > > > > > There are 170 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 Jan 9 10:43:54 UTC 2019. > > > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Still (for v4.19.13-171-gc68ce175c3b8): > > > > > > > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’: > > > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:761:21: error: ‘msr’ undeclared > > > > > > > > > > AFAICS commit 5c784c8414fba ("powerpc/tm: Remove msr_tm_active()") is missing. > > > > > > > > Breno on this thread just said that this patch should not be applied, > > > > and another one will be submitted upstream instead to solve the problem > > > > correctly and then we can backport it. > > > > > > > > So we can live with this build issue for now. > > > > > > > > > > I think you should drop the offending patch in this case. It doesn't make > > > sense to keep it - all it accomplishes is to break various builds. What is > > > the point of doing that ? Is that somehow better than living with the bug > > > it is supposed to fix ? > > > > That's what the developers involved seem to say. > > > That will prevent anyone affected from actually using 4.19.14, and earlier > kernels will still have the problem people are now so concerned about. > In other words, this will accomplish exactly nothig except confirm the > notion that stable releases are not well tested. I _really_ don't get > the point, sorry. No, you are right, we shouldn't include stuff we know is broken for a large group. I've dropped the patch now from everywhere. thanks, greg k-h