Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/232] 5.8.3-rc1 review

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:57:57PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 14:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.3 release.
There are 232 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, 22 Aug 2020 09:15:09 +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-5.8.3-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-5.8.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Herbert Xu [off-list ref]
    crypto: af_alg - Fix regression on empty requests

Results from Linaro’s test farm.
Regressions detected.

  ltp-crypto-tests:
    * af_alg02
  ltp-cve-tests:
    * cve-2017-17805

af_alg02.c:52: BROK: Timed out while reading from request socket.
We are running the LTP 20200515 tag released test suite.
 https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/crypto/af_alg02.c

Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------

kernel: 5.8.3-rc1
git repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
git branch: linux-5.8.y
git commit: 201fff807310ce10485bcff294d47be95f3769eb
git describe: v5.8.2-233-g201fff807310
Test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-5.8-oe/build/v5.8.2-233-g201fff807310

Regressions (compared to build v5.8.2)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

x15:
  ltp-crypto-tests:
    * af_alg02

  ltp-cve-tests:
    * cve-2017-17805

Looks like this test is still "broken" because it assumes behavior that isn't
clearly specified, as previously discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702033221.GA19367@gondor.apana.org.au.

I sent out LTP patches to fix it:
https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20200820181918.404758-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u

- Eric