On 04.07.23 10:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:13:03PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
On 04/07/23 1:54 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
While running LTP hugetlb testing on x86 the following kernel BUG noticed on running stable-rc 6.3.12-rc1.
Have you looked at Patch 9 of this series:
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/2023070416-wow-phrasing-b92c@gregkh/T/#m12068...
Looks very much related, it also has a note on Backporting. As I think it could be related, I am sharing this.(But haven't tested anything)
Yes, that's the offending patch. I should have read over the full changelogs before doing bisection, but bisection/test proved that this was not correct for 6.3.y at this point in time.
FWIW, I'm preparing a few small tweaks for Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst (to be submitted after the merge window). I among others consider adding something like this that might help avoiding this situation:
``` To delay pick up of patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, use the following format:
.. code-block:: none
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # after 4 weeks in mainline
For any other requests related to patches submitted via :ref:`option_1`, just add a note to the stable tag. This for example can be used to point out known problems:
.. code-block:: none
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # see patch description, needs adjustments for 6.3 and earlier
```
Greg, if this is stupid or in case you want it to say something else, just say so.
Ciao, Thorsten