On Tue, May 7, 2024, at 09:20, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
The WinLink E850-96 board boot failed with Linux next-20240506 but there is no kernel crash log on the serial [1].
Anders bisection results pointing to this commit, # first bad commit: [4d11c62ca8d77cb1f79054844b598e0f4e92dabe] clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev entrie
After reverting the above patch the boot test passed [2].
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
Links: [1] - https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/7546260 [2] - https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/7548064
I assume this is an actual overflow that was previously ignored and is now causing vclkdev_alloc() to fail. Unfortunately this happens before the console is up, so there is no output. Can you run the broken version again with 'earlycon' added to the boot arguments?
Arnd