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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/95] 4.9.96-stable review
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:23:49PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On 22 April 2018 at 19:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.9.96 release.
> > There are 95 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 Tue Apr 24 13:51:53 UTC 2018.
> > 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/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.9.96-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.9.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Regression detected on arm64 devices Hikey and Juno.
> 
> Here is the list of bad commit patches to be reverted.
> git bisect found first bad commit as "3"
> but reverting 3 patch failed.
> so i have to revert all four patches and boot test and the boot PASS on hikey.
> 
> 1)
> Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>     random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG
> 2)
> Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>     random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying
> 3)
> Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>     random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized

This is the one I need to revert anyway.

Let me see if I can just drop that one and do a -rc3.  Give me a few
hours...

greg k-h