Re: [PATCH 5.13 000/156] 5.13.5-rc1 review

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 05:26:22PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 22:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.13.5 release.
There are 156 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 Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:56:00 +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-5.13.5-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-5.13.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

The following error is due to SATA drive format failing with arm64 64k-page
size ( CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y ) kernel.
while running LTP syscalls test suite on running 5.13.3 and 5.13.5-rc1 kernel.

First it was noticed on the stable-rc 5.13.3-rc2 kernel.

Whereas 64bit kernel and 32bit kernel pass with 4K page size.

Initially, I thought it could be a Hard drive fault but it is reproducible on
other devices but not always. Which is a blocker to bisect the problem.

The steps to reproduce:
 - Boot arm64 juno device with 64k page stable-rc 5.13 kernel Image [1]
   - CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y
 - format connected SATA drives and mount /scratch
 - Use the mounted /scratch for LTP runs to create and delete files from this
 - cd /opt/ltp
 - ./runltp -d /scratch -f syscalls

And does that also fail for 5.13.2?