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.



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