On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:16 AM Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce, Yocto kernel folks: > > Here is the next 5.2.x stable update "extension" primarily created for > the Yocto project, as the next v5.2.x post-EOL release. > > The content is from an audit of what went into the v5.4.25 to v5.4.29 > releases - plus any upstream commits listed as Fixes: for backports in > the above v5.4.x content, and a few upstream commits for recent CVE. > > There are just under 500 commits deployed here that were applicable for > this v5.2.41 release. > > RCU got a change post-v5.2 (28875945ba98) that allowed an optional 4th > argument to some list-rcu functions for educating lockdep against false > positives. Since we were up to at least four "Fixes:" commits relying > on this, I decided it would be worthwhile to put in, hence the RCU > commits early in the series, in case anyone was wondering. Actual RCU > functionality itself should remain unchanged. > > I've put this 5.2.41 queue through my normal testing, with build tests > on x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis and > finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64 (raw + qemu/KVM). >
Thanks Paul, this is now merged and pushed to the repo. Bruce > Please find tag v5.2.41 (beb207285e791a8712f10b0d2f8fa880f9d1e10e) as > the current head of linux-5.2.y branch in the repo in the kernel.org > directory here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git/?h=linux-5.2.y > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git > > for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-5.2 and then out from there > into the other base and BSP branches. > > For those who are interested, the evolution of the commits is here: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-5.2.git/ > > This repo isn't needed for anything; it just exists for transparency and > so people can see the evolution of the raw commits that were originally > selected to create this 5.2.x release. > > Paul. -- - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
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