Helo Sasha,
Does this error have to do anything with the patch fix ? The driver fix is dependent on ARM arch and does not apply to x86 arch.
I have compiled the 5.4.y kernel with patch applied and there was no such error.
Regards, Hardik
On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
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Hi,
Summary of potential issues: ❌ Build failures detected
The upstream commit SHA1 provided is correct: 970dc9c11a17994ab878016b536612ab00d1441d
WARNING: Author mismatch between patch and upstream commit: Backport author: Hardik Gohilhgohil@mvista.com Commit author: Yann Gautieryann.gautier@foss.st.com
Status in newer kernel trees: 6.14.y | Present (exact SHA1) 6.13.y | Present (exact SHA1) 6.12.y | Present (exact SHA1) 6.6.y | Present (exact SHA1) 6.1.y | Present (exact SHA1) 5.15.y | Present (different SHA1: 287093040fc5) 5.10.y | Present (different SHA1: abda366ece48)
Note: The patch differs from the upstream commit:
1: 970dc9c11a179 < -: ------------- mmc: mmci: stm32: use a buffer for unaligned DMA requests
-: ------------- > 1: 1b01d9c341770 Linux 5.4.292
Results of testing on various branches:
| Branch | Patch Apply | Build Test | |---------------------------|-------------|------------| | stable/linux-5.4.y | Success | Failed |
Build Errors: Build error for stable/linux-5.4.y: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.o: warning: objtool: .entry.text+0x1e1: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+56 cfa2=7+40 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.o: warning: objtool: __vmx_vcpu_run()+0x12a: return with modified stack frame In file included from ./include/linux/list.h:9, from ./include/linux/kobject.h:19, from ./include/linux/of.h:17, from ./include/linux/clk-provider.h:9, from drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rpmh.c:6: drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rpmh.c: In function 'clk_rpmh_bcm_send_cmd': ./include/linux/kernel.h:843:43: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types] 843 | (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1))) | ^~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:857:18: note: in expansion of macro '__typecheck' 857 | (__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y)) | ^~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:867:31: note: in expansion of macro '__safe_cmp' 867 | __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \ | ^~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/kernel.h:876:25: note: in expansion of macro '__careful_cmp' 876 | #define min(x, y) __careful_cmp(x, y, <) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/clk/qcom/clk-rpmh.c:273:21: note: in expansion of macro 'min' 273 | cmd_state = min(cmd_state, BCM_TCS_CMD_VOTE_MASK); | ^~~ fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c: In function 'xfs_ifork_verify_attr': fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c:735:13: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'i_df' will never be NULL [-Waddress] 735 | if (!XFS_IFORK_PTR(ip, XFS_ATTR_FORK)) | ^ In file included from fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c:14: ./fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h:38:33: note: 'i_df' declared here 38 | struct xfs_ifork i_df; /* data fork */ | ^~~~ drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c: In function 'ksz9477_reset_switch': drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz9477.c:198:12: warning: unused variable 'data8' [-Wunused-variable] 198 | u8 data8; | ^~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c: In function 'intel_dp_mode_valid': drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c:639:33: warning: 'drm_dp_dsc_sink_max_slice_count' reading 16 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overread] 639 | drm_dp_dsc_sink_max_slice_count(intel_dp->dsc_dpcd, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 640 | true); | ~~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c:639:33: note: referencing argument 1 of type 'const u8[16]' {aka 'const unsigned char[16]'} In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c:39: ./include/drm/drm_dp_helper.h:1174:4: note: in a call to function 'drm_dp_dsc_sink_max_slice_count' 1174 | u8 drm_dp_dsc_sink_max_slice_count(const u8 dsc_dpcd[DP_DSC_RECEIVER_CAP_SIZE], | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ./include/linux/bitops.h:5, from ./include/linux/kernel.h:12, from ./include/linux/list.h:9, from ./include/linux/module.h:9, from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c:6: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c: In function 'qed_grc_dump_addr_range': ./include/linux/bits.h:8:33: warning: overflow in conversion from 'long unsigned int' to 'u8' {aka 'unsigned char'} changes value from '(long unsigned int)((int)vf_id << 8 | 128)' to '128' [-Woverflow] 8 | #define BIT(nr) (UL(1) << (nr)) | ^ drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_debug.c:2572:31: note: in expansion of macro 'BIT' 2572 | fid = BIT(PXP_PRETEND_CONCRETE_FID_VFVALID_SHIFT) | | ^~~ drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/wndw.c:628:1: warning: conflicting types for 'nv50_wndw_new_' due to enum/integer mismatch; have 'int(const struct nv50_wndw_func *, struct drm_device *, enum drm_plane_type, const char *, int, const u32 *, u32, enum nv50_disp_interlock_type, u32, struct nv50_wndw **)' {aka 'int(const struct nv50_wndw_func *, struct drm_device *, enum drm_plane_type, const char *, int, const unsigned int *, unsigned int, enum nv50_disp_interlock_type, unsigned int, struct nv50_wndw **)'} [-Wenum-int-mismatch] 628 | nv50_wndw_new_(const struct nv50_wndw_func *func, struct drm_device *dev, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/wndw.c:22: drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/wndw.h:39:5: note: previous declaration of 'nv50_wndw_new_' with type 'int(const struct nv50_wndw_func *, struct drm_device *, enum drm_plane_type, const char *, int, const u32 *, enum nv50_disp_interlock_type, u32, u32, struct nv50_wndw **)' {aka 'int(const struct nv50_wndw_func *, struct drm_device *, enum drm_plane_type, const char *, int, const unsigned int *, enum nv50_disp_interlock_type, unsigned int, unsigned int, struct nv50_wndw **)'} 39 | int nv50_wndw_new_(const struct nv50_wndw_func *, struct drm_device *, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S: Assembler messages: .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S:148756: Warning: zero assumed for missing expression /home/sasha/compilers/gcc-14.2.0-nolibc/x86_64-linux/bin/x86_64-linux-ld: .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o: in function `kallsyms_names': (.rodata+0x956df): undefined reference to `xb8' make: *** [Makefile:1121: vmlinux] Error 1 make: Target '_all' not remade because of errors.