Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/294] 5.10.215-rc1 review

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 02:59:16PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.215 release.
> > There are 294 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.
> 
> > Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     vfio/pci: Create persistent INTx handler
> 
> This introduces memory leak in vfio_intx_enable() -- name is not freed
> in case vdev->ctx = kzalloc() fails, for example.

So is the upstream commit wrong, or the backport wrong?

> > Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_LNX_5 to track recently added Linux-defined word
> 
> AFAICT this is not needed in 5.10.

Why not?

> > Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     objtool: Add asm version of STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD
> 
> Asm version of this macro is not used in 5.10.

It fixed an issue.

> > Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx>
> >     x86/head/64: Re-enable stack protection
> 
> This is preparation for preparation for SEV-SNP CPUID patches, I don't
> believe we plan that for 6.1.

This is 5.10, not 6.1.

And are you sure that this is not needed?  Remember the x86 speculation
mess that is happening here.

> > David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> >     btrfs: handle chunk tree lookup error in btrfs_relocate_sys_chunks()
> 
> (This applies to 4.19, too). mutex_unlock() is needed before "goto
> error" here.

So can you provide that fix please?

> > Aric Cyr <aric.cyr@xxxxxxx>
> >     drm/amd/display: Fix nanosec stat overflow
> 
> (This applies to 4.19, too). This is wrong. It updates prototypes but
> not actual functions.

So should it be dropped or added to 4.19?

confused,

greg k-h




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux