On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 08:50:43PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.217 release.
There are 50 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 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:57:23 +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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.14.217-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-4.14.y
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

MIPS: cavium_octeon_defconfig and nlm_xlp_defconfig builds breaks
due to this patch on 4.14, 4.9 and 4.4

quoted

Al Viro [off-list ref]
    MIPS: Fix malformed NT_FILE and NT_SIGINFO in 32bit coredumps

Build error:
arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c:116:
/arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c: In function 'fill_siginfo_note':
/arch/mips/kernel/../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c:1575:23: error: passing
argument 1 of 'copy_siginfo_to_user' from incompatible pointer type
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
  copy_siginfo_to_user((user_siginfo_t __user *) csigdata, siginfo);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MIPS build failed
    * gcc-10-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
    * gcc-10-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
    * gcc-8-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
    * gcc-8-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED
    * gcc-9-cavium_octeon_defconfig - FAILED
    * gcc-9-nlm_xlp_defconfig - FAILED

Build log link,
https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc/-/jobs/980489009#L162

Ugh, I had already dropped that from other kernels before, forgot to do
so here, sorry about, will go do that now and push out -rc2 for all 3 of
these branches.

thanks,

greg k-h