On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:09:38AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 02:53:13PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 07:20:46AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:50:24AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > > On 2/13/23 06:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.168 release. > > > > > There are 139 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, 15 Feb 2023 14:46:51 +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-5.10.168-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-5.10.y > > > > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > > > greg k-h > > > > > > > > There is a regression coming from: > > > > > > > > nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race > > > > > > > > which causes the following to happen for MTD devices: > > > > > > > > [ 6.031640] kobject_add_internal failed for mtd0 with -EEXIST, don't try > > > > to register things with the same name in the same directory. > > > > [ 7.846965] spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with error -17 > > > > > > > > attached is a full log with the call trace. This does not happen with > > > > v6.2-rc8 where the MTD partitions are successfully registered. > > > > > > Can you use `git bisect` to find the offending commit? > > > > The reason for this is because, due to how my patch series was > > backported, you have ended up with nvmem_register() initialising > > its embedded device, and then calling device_add() on it _twice_. > > > > Basically, the backport of: > > > > "nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race" > > > > is broken, because the original patch _moved_ the device_add() and > > that has not been carried forward to whatever got applied to stable > > trees. > > > > It looks like the 5.15-stable version of this patch was correct. > > > > Maybe whoever tried to fixup the failure needs to try again? > > I've dropped the backport series from both 5.15 and 5.10. So you've dropped what looks to be a perfectly good backport in 5.15, and all of the 5.10 despite it just being the last patch which is the problem. Sounds like a total over-reaction to me. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
