Re: Kernel version numbers after 4.9.255 and 4.4.255

2021-02-04 Thread Christoph Biedl
David Laight wrote... > A full wrap might catch checks for less than (say) 4.4.2 which > might be present to avoid very early versions. > So sticking at 255 or wrapping onto (say) 128 to 255 might be better. Hitting such version checks still might happen, though. Also, any wrapping introduces a

Re: [PATCH 4.20 41/65] Revert "powerpc/tm: Unset MSR[TS] if not recheckpointing"

2019-01-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > -- > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > This reverts commit d412deb85a4aada382352a8202beb7af8921cd53 which is > commit 6f5b9f018f4c7686fd944d920209d1382d320e4e upstream. > >

Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

2019-01-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > Ok, Breno and Christoph, what should I do here? Should I drop this > patch in the tree or add this new one? Ideally I can fix this soon as I > don't like having broken trees out there... Whatever Breno says - I don't feel competent enough to decide what's right her

Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

2019-01-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christoph Biedl wrote... > Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Building yesterday's > release (v4.19.14) *failed*, bisect led to > > | commit a9935a12768851762089fda8e5a9daaf0231808e (HEAD) > | Author: Breno Leitao > | Date: Mon Nov 26 18:12:00 2018 -0200 > |

Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/170] 4.19.14-stable review

2019-01-10 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > I dropped e1c3743e1a20 ("powerpc/tm: Set MSR[TS] just prior to recheckpoint") > from the stable trees, which is what I was told was the commit that was > causing the problems by Christoph and Breno (on to: now). > > Was that not the offending commit? If so, what one

Re: [PATCH 4.14 024/110] btrfs: use proper endianness accessors for super_copy

2018-03-17 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 07:55:42PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > commit 3c181c12c431fe33b669410d663beb9cceefcd1b upstream. > > On big-endian systems, this change intruduces severe corruption, > > resulting in complete loss of the data

Re: [PATCH 4.14 024/110] btrfs: use proper endianness accessors for super_copy

2018-03-15 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > commit 3c181c12c431fe33b669410d663beb9cceefcd1b upstream. (...) > If the filesystem is always used on a same endian host, this will not > be a problem. >From my observations I cannot qui

Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: add missing statesize

2015-11-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Maxime Ripard wrote... > > > > This patch specifiy statesize for sha1 and md5. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin > > > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > > > > > > Please also add a Fixes tag (and the stable version it applies to). > > > > I don't see the point for a fixes tag as it wo

Re: Soft lockup issue in Linux 4.1.9

2015-10-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Eric Dumazet wrote... [ commit 83fccfc3940c4a2db90fd7e7079f5b465cd8c6af ] > It definitely should help ! Yesterday, I've experienced issues somewhat similar to this, but I'm not entirely sure: Four of five systems running 4.1.9 stopped working. No reaction on network, keyboard, serial console. I

Re: [ 030/143] proc connector: fix info leaks

2014-05-12 Thread Christoph Biedl
Willy Tarreau wrote... > Initialize event_data for all possible message types to prevent leaking > kernel stack contents to userland (up to 20 bytes). Also set the flags > member of the connector message to 0 to prevent leaking two more stack > bytes this way. There are build errors as shown belo

Re: [ 00/13] 3.0.99-stable review

2013-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Khalid Aziz wrote... > Better yet, just pull this patch from stable from now. I will redo > the patch and send another one for the next round. FYI, after patching mm/swap.c accordingly, all the 3.0 and 3.4 configurations I use do build. Some boot tests will follow, I'll follow up only if I see un

Re: [ 00/13] 3.0.99-stable review

2013-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Khalid Aziz wrote... > Thanks for tracking this down. I had not tried a configuration with > CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE not set. In my config, I was getting many > multiple definition errors for bunch of other defines from > linux/hugetlb.h. I will look at my config again but chances are I > had somethin

Re: [ 00/13] 3.0.99-stable review

2013-10-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Guenter Roeck wrote... > On 10/02/2013 09:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.0.99 release. > Heads up: I am getting lots of build failures in 3.0 and 3.4 builds. > > mm/built-in.o: In function `__put_compound_page': > slab.c:(.text+0xaa3c):

Re: Linux 2.6.32.61 - x86/ptrace/gcc 4.7 build error

2013-06-13 Thread Christoph Biedl
Willy Tarreau wrote... > I'm attaching the two patches here to be appled on top of 2.6.32.61, I would > like it if you could try in your environment to confirm that they correctly > fix the issue. Confirmation: Kernel builds and runs for both Debian squeeze and wheezy (gcc 4.4 and gcc 4.7) on i38

Re: [ 81/83] ACPI video: Ignore errors after _DOD evaluation.

2012-11-22 Thread Christoph Biedl
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote... > 3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. Only a small set of the (guessed) 300 e-mails arrived here, they were: - 21/11 Greg Kroah-Hartman ┬─>[ 81/83] ACPI video: Ignore errors after _DOD evaluation. - 21/11 Greg Kroah-Hartman

Re: [PATCH 00/11] 3.2-stable: Fix for leapsecond caused hrtimer/futex issue

2012-07-19 Thread Christoph Biedl
John Stultz wrote... > Attached is the test case I used to reproduce and test the solution > to the hard-hang deadlock. I was wondering whether anybody managed to crash a virtualbox guest using your program. No avail, using version 4.1.18 on the host and the guest kernel running several 3.0.x (x

it821x trouble since 2.6.18

2007-01-14 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi, There are ITE 8212-based controllers installed in some of my computers. I had always skipped the build-in RAID things and used them as plain controllers. 1. Beginning with 2.6.18 there was some trouble, basically slowed data transfer, sometimes even a totally stalled system (I cannot reproduc