On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:23:49PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote: > On 22 April 2018 at 19:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.96 release. > > There are 95 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 Tue Apr 24 13:51:53 UTC 2018. > > 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.96-rc1.gz > > or in the git tree and branch at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > Regression detected on arm64 devices Hikey and Juno. > > Here is the list of bad commit patches to be reverted. > git bisect found first bad commit as "3" > but reverting 3 patch failed. > so i have to revert all four patches and boot test and the boot PASS on hikey. > > 1) > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG > 2) > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying > 3) > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized This is the one I need to revert anyway. Let me see if I can just drop that one and do a -rc3. Give me a few hours... greg k-h