Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.5 000/171] 5.5.14-rc2 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:56:20 +0200

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:03:16AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 4/1/20 8:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 04:18:41AM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 21:02, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.5.14 release.
> > > > There are 171 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 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:12:02 +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-5.5.14-rc2.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.5.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> > > Regressions on x86_64 and i386.
> > > 
> > > selftests bpf test_verifier reports as failed.
> > > This test PASSED on v5.5.13
> > > 
> > > #554/p jgt32: range bound deduction, reg op imm FAIL
> > > Failed to load prog 'Success'!
> > > R8 unbounded memory access, make sure to bounds check any array access
> > > into a map
> > > verification time 141 usec
> > > stack depth 8
> > > processed 16 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 0 total_states
> > > 1 peak_states 1 mark_read 1
> > > #555/p jgt32: range bound deduction, reg1 op reg2, reg1 unknown FAIL
> > > Failed to load prog 'Success'!
> > > R8 unbounded memory access, make sure to bounds check any array access
> > > into a map
> > > verification time 94 usec
> > > stack depth 8
> > > processed 17 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 0 total_states
> > > 1 peak_states 1 mark_read 1
> > > #556/p jle32: range bound deduction, reg1 op reg2, reg2 unknown FAIL
> > > Failed to load prog 'Success'!
> > > R8 unbounded memory access, make sure to bounds check any array access
> > > into a map
> > > verification time 68 usec
> > > stack depth 8
> > > processed 17 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 0 total_states
> > > 1 peak_states 1 mark_read 1
> > 
> > Can you run 'git bisect' to find the offending patch?
> 
> No need, I'll send you a patch to update the selftests. It's expected that they
> fail now due to the revert we had to do, so if this is the only issue it shouldn't
> hold up the release. In any case, I'll send them over to you next.

Great, thanks for letting me know this isn't a "real" issue :)

greg k-h