Re: [GIT PULL] commits for Linux 3.18

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Harsh Shandilya <msfjarvis@gmail.com>,
	Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] commits for Linux 3.18
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:14:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180409161446.GA23745@flashbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180409151249.GA2264@kroah.com>

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 05:12:49PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 12:40:48AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 12:32:55PM +0530, Harsh Shandilya wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 5 April 2018 11:54:28 AM IST, Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > >Hash: SHA512
> > > >
> > > >Hi Greg,
> > > >
> > > >Pleae pull commits for Linux 3.18 .
> > > >
> > > >I've sent a review request for all commits over a week ago and all
> > > >comments were addressed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >Sasha
> > > >
> > > >=====
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >The following changes since commit
> > > >89dad4ea47357950b8ba09886e02ff4fd0793f9e:
> > > >
> > > >  Linux 3.18.99 (2018-03-11 16:12:20 +0100)
> > > >
> > > >are available in the Git repository at:
> > > >
> > > >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable.git
> > > >tags/for-greg-3.18-04052018
> > > >
> > > >for you to fetch changes up to
> > > >5ea952bd1f538212d63bbd34b42e2cc769074259:
> > > >
> > > >signal/arm: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE (2018-04-05
> > > >00:51:03 -0400)
> > > >
> > > >- ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >for-greg-3.18-04052018
> > > >
> > > >- ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >Jason A. Donenfeld (1):
> > > >      skbuff: return -EMSGSIZE in skb_to_sgvec to prevent overflow
> > > >
> > > This patch introduces build warnings[1] with GCC 7.3.1 that were fixed upstream by commit 3f29770723fe498a5c5f57c3a31a996ebdde03e1 ("ipsec: check return value of skb_to_sgvec always").
> > > 
> > > [1] https://del.dog/delexogeqi.coffeescript
> > > -- 
> > > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> > 
> > I have backported this commit and verified it fixes the warnings. This
> > affects 3.18, 4.4, and 4.9. I can send them if/when these patches are
> > added. No other warnings appear on arm64 and x86_64.
> 
> Do you happen to have a pointer to these backports?  I tried a simple
> one for 4.9.y and it didn't apply :(
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

There was some refractoring of the arguments to skb_to_sgvec and
skb_to_sgvec_nomark in addition to the lines around them between 4.9 and
4.12. It's even worse between 3.18 and 4.4. I have the patch files
sitting right here if you want me to send them over.

Cheers!
Nathan