On 10/27/25 11:32, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.301 release. There are 224 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, 29 Oct 2025 18:34:15 +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/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.301-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
There is a new warning showing up with b27e16c9e625465fe9ea9955bd8ab095498de9e3 ("tcp: fix tcp_tso_should_defer() vs large RTT") , but since 5.4 does not have the full minmax backports this is expected:
In file included from ./include/linux/list.h:9, from ./include/net/tcp.h:19, from net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:40: net/ipv4/tcp_output.c: In function 'tcp_tso_should_defer': ./include/linux/kernel.h:843:43: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast 843 | (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1))) | ^~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:857:18: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck' 857 | (__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y)) | ^~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:867:31: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp' 867 | __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \ | ^~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:876:25: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp' 876 | #define min(x, y) __careful_cmp(x, y, <) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2028:21: note: in expansion of macro 'min' 2028 | threshold = min(srtt_in_ns >> 1, NSEC_PER_MSEC); | ^~~
I don't think this should hold off the release though.