On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 19:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.40 release. There are 158 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, 24 Jul 2025 13:43:10 +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-6.12.40-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
With addition to the previous report on the stable-rc 6.15.8-rc1 review While building allyesconfig build for arm64 and x86 with the toolchain clang-nightly version 22.0.0 the following build warnings / errors noticed on the stable-rc 6.12.40-rc1 review.
Regression Analysis: - New regression? Yes - Reproducibility? Yes
Build regression: arm64 x86 kcsan_test.c error variable 'dummy' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Build log
kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c:591:41: error: variable 'dummy' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer] 591 | KCSAN_EXPECT_READ_BARRIER(atomic_read(&dummy), false); | ^~~~~ 1 error generated.
## Source * Git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * Git sha: 596aae841edf981aab1df1845e6df012bed94594 * Git describe: v6.12.39-159-g596aae841edf * Architectures: arm64 x86 * Toolchains: Debian clang version 22.0.0 (++20250721112855+43a829a7e894-1~exp1~20250721112913.1588) * Kconfigs: allyesconfig
## Build * Build log: https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.12.y/v6.12.39-15... * Build run: https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.12.y/v6.12.39-15... * Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/30EXE6Cnct6e7DCgsWWrX... * Kernel config: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/30EXE6Cnct6e7DCgsWWrX...
## Steps to reproduce * tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm64 --toolchain clang-nightly --kconfig allyesconfig LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
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