On Tue, 2 Sept 2025 at 19:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.298 release. There are 23 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 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:19:14 +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-5.4.298-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
The following build warnings / errors were noticed on powerpc cell_defconfig and mpc83xx_defconfig with clang-20 toolchain on stable-rc 5.4.298-rc1.
But the gcc-12 build passed.
* powerpc, build - clang-20-cell_defconfig - clang-20-mpc83xx_defconfig - clang-nightly-cell_defconfig - clang-nightly-mpc83xx_defconfig
Regression Analysis: - New regression? yes - Reproducibility? yes
First seen on 5.4.298-rc1 Bad: 5.4.298-rc1 Good: v5.4.297
Build regression: stable-rc 5.4.298-rc1 powerpc/boot/util.S:44: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `0'
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
Build error: -------- arch/powerpc/boot/main.c:107:18: warning: array comparison always evaluates to a constant [-Wtautological-compare] 107 | if (_initrd_end > _initrd_start) { | ^ 1 warning generated. /arch/powerpc/boot/util.S: Assembler messages: /arch/powerpc/boot/util.S:44: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `0' /arch/powerpc/boot/util.S:49: Error: syntax error; found `b', expected `,' /arch/powerpc/boot/util.S:49: Error: junk at end of line: `b' clang: error: assembler command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
Links: - https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y/v5.4.297-24-... - https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/lkft/builds/329ANlwlms... - https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/329ANlwlmsEF0DVWfAhYu...
## Build * kernel: 5.4.298-rc1 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: 79c1b3cebd7a938fa4288b4e4e63a4265bd570a4 * git describe: v5.4.297-24-g79c1b3cebd7a * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.4.y/build/v5.4.29...
## Test Regressions (compared to v5.4.296-404-ga860ce417cb1)
* powerpc, build - clang-20-cell_defconfig - clang-20-mpc83xx_defconfig - clang-nightly-cell_defconfig - clang-nightly-mpc83xx_defconfig
## Metric Regressions (compared to v5.4.296-404-ga860ce417cb1)
## Test Fixes (compared to v5.4.296-404-ga860ce417cb1)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v5.4.296-404-ga860ce417cb1)
## Test result summary total: 39592, pass: 30278, fail: 2135, skip: 7024, xfail: 155
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 131 total, 131 passed, 0 failed * arm64: 31 total, 29 passed, 2 failed * i386: 18 total, 13 passed, 5 failed * mips: 25 total, 25 passed, 0 failed * parisc: 3 total, 0 passed, 3 failed * powerpc: 26 total, 22 passed, 4 failed * riscv: 9 total, 3 passed, 6 failed * s390: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed * sh: 10 total, 10 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 6 total, 6 passed, 0 failed * x86_64: 27 total, 27 passed, 0 failed
## Test suites summary * boot * kselftest-arm64 * kselftest-breakpoints * kselftest-capabilities * kselftest-clone3 * kselftest-core * kselftest-cpu-hotplug * kselftest-exec * kselftest-fpu * kselftest-futex * kselftest-intel_pstate * kselftest-kcmp * kselftest-membarrier * kselftest-mincore * kselftest-mqueue * kselftest-openat2 * kselftest-ptrace * kselftest-rseq * kselftest-rtc * kselftest-sigaltstack * kselftest-size * kselftest-timers * kselftest-tmpfs * kselftest-tpm2 * kselftest-user_events * kselftest-vDSO * kselftest-x86 * kunit * lava * libhugetlbfs * log-parser-boot * log-parser-build-clang * log-parser-build-gcc * log-parser-test * ltp-capability * ltp-commands * ltp-containers * ltp-controllers * ltp-cpuhotplug * ltp-crypto * ltp-cve * ltp-dio * ltp-fcntl-locktests * ltp-fs * ltp-fs_bind * ltp-fs_perms_simple * ltp-hugetlb * ltp-math * ltp-mm * ltp-nptl * ltp-pty * ltp-sched * ltp-smoke * ltp-syscalls * ltp-tracing * perf * rcutorture
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