On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 10:59:35PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 20:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.6.81 release. There are 147 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, 08 Mar 2025 15:13:38 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.6.81-rc2.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.6.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Regressions on i386 the defconfig builds failed with clang-20 and gcc-13 the stable-rc 6.6.81-rc2.
First seen on the Good: v6.6.78 Bad: v6.6.78-442-g8f0527d547fe
- i386 build
- clang-20-defconfig
- clang-nightly-defconfig
- gcc-13-defconfig
- gcc-8-defconfig
Regression Analysis:
- New regression? Yes
- Reproducibility? Yes
Build regression: i386 microcode core.c use of undeclared identifier 'initrd_start_early' Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Build log arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c:198:11: error: use of undeclared identifier 'initrd_start_early'; did you mean 'initrd_start'? 198 | start = initrd_start_early; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | initrd_start include/linux/initrd.h:18:22: note: 'initrd_start' declared here 18 | extern unsigned long initrd_start, initrd_end; | ^ 1 error generated.
Looks like we need:
4c585af7180c ("x86/boot/32: Temporarily map initrd for microcode loading")
after all. Stupid 32-bit sh*t.
Greg, ontop of what do you want this backported? Or should I send you a whole set again with this patch in the right spot and you can apply the whole set again?
Thx.