From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6590C433B4 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5206120F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230232AbhDLFPG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:15:06 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45860 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229764AbhDLFPF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:15:05 -0400 Received: from mail-ot1-x330.google.com (mail-ot1-x330.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::330]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76869C061574 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ot1-x330.google.com with SMTP id w31-20020a9d36220000b02901f2cbfc9743so11700329otb.7 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:14:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=kyfCrPJsGOPHeYAHRBpmqkFCyszA/k+gL/paXOUfjJ8=; b=AQK3qXaFsnZNNx3qX4YDIFdybx8KeeBYrj4thSnuoAJxk+MHQDuNJBHZr6saGRYOOK j68tce7vfVDhqJuNCqliJdnS9YydL5R0uCZ8HT/+u4A/HPaGrFaQBUFOo8FUECRZBHD7 NW2fBUAJ0bXMfurdZGnEuRcyejA/hcSLGob/aqUhYpGg/kIYOqBw7tPDvZfK/qiNKNC8 QxRZPfEEnCGmEssFZ1Fd1y+5o4zhj3A0Yu/wZc43wO/7FmObOHUBakRHfIw3KrOhiM41 aLs3yxSUV6iFIxLW80WCBxHz5hOkdM7Asf6HjPSobs1XZQiD4ZMl42bvVtCqhUzi4hSE 8WgA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=kyfCrPJsGOPHeYAHRBpmqkFCyszA/k+gL/paXOUfjJ8=; b=d1MS6lXQ7dBeog35EoS+KdUTqIPPL/LQgAgLi9HQKW22EQNndDNcyk6qEIPl+1JuPg it7UerAcUbVgs/egzy25wLj9M+KLW9skGjnEkctn5kbVRYDqnt3m+d1LhxunXF4XLpox +2TaoszF880PJuOCTE9RbfaYlPtWXtyH2W4CnCvRRZSgeUJTlqWJtoE3S/6NN/UWn1tW 5zM8qt0LmO8l50kotoXPNJtU4/HclGWlj8SLeVklTverMYrIl1oZeP+rVGP8jBiN0Ubh Tf+RvCVWuuR2Uv0DuE+tSnduOc8KF54PqXiB9fSzK3OUjT9joaUsBRQlvB4yps0sM6Za faMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532EIZHc3d9iW1w3PZmnLGB136cRiU7PivKC6erYpQ4NTEbzQ61H UTp2VWh5ZOQooYnF6Uj7Syc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJy5RRYsCiinsxKkjKqUAJvixU69jANHNRbuHmdHfxL8qAD45p8qqZLdQCbtuVrNdY6VHnEIHA== X-Received: by 2002:a9d:7d91:: with SMTP id j17mr14518754otn.135.1618204487907; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2600:1700:e321:62f0:329c:23ff:fee3:9d7c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w1sm1819302otq.75.2021.04.11.22.14.46 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:14:45 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: Linux 5.12-rc7 Message-ID: <20210412051445.GA47322@roeck-us.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 03:41:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh well. rc5 was big. rc6 was small. And now rc7 is big again. In > fact, it's the biggest rc7 (at least in number of commits) we've had > in the 5.x series. > > It's mostly due to networking fixes (of which rc6 had none), and none > of them should be all that scary, but it's never great when we have > such a big rc. It's particularly annoying at the end of the release > window like this. > > End result: I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release. The fact > that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8 > this time around. But it ends up depending a bit on how the upcoming > week goes, and if things are deathly quiet, I may end up deciding that > an rc8 doesn't really make sense. > > So we'll see. > > Anyway, networking (both core and drivers) is over half of the rc7 > patch, with the rest being a fairly random collection of fixes all > over. We've got other driver updates (sound, rdma, scsi, usb..) some > fs fixes (io_uring, umount, btrfs, cifs, ocfs), minor arch fixes (arc, > arm, parisc, powerpc, s390, x86), and other misc fixes. > > The shortlog is appended, although it's obviously not as nice and > small and readable as I'd have liked at this point in the release.. > > Please do test, > Build results: total: 151 pass: 151 fail: 0 Qemu test results: total: 460 pass: 459 fail: 1 Failed tests: sh:rts7751r2dplus_defconfig:ata:net,virtio-net:rootfs The failure bisects to commit 0f6925b3e8da ("virtio_net: Do not pull payload in skb->head"). It is a spurious problem - the test passes roughly every other time. When the failure is seen, udhcpc fails to get an IP address and aborts with SIGTERM. So far I have only seen this with the "sh" architecture. Guenter