[LTP] [PATCH 6.17 000/244] 6.17.9-rc2 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 21:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.17.9 release.
> There are 244 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 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:05:54 +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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.17.9-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-6.17.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

The LTP syscalls listmount04 failures noticed across the 6.18.0-rc6,
Linux next-20251120, stable-rc 6.17.9-rc1, 6.17.9-rc2 and 6.12.59-rc1.

First seen on 6.17.9-rc1
Good: v6.17.6
Bad: 6.17.9-rc1

Regression Analysis:
- New regression? yes
- Reproducibility? yes

Test regression: listmount04.c:128: TFAIL: invalid mnt_id_req.spare
expected EINVAL: EBADF (9)

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Test log,
<8>[  467.451816] <LAVA_SIGNAL_STARTTC listmount04>
tst_buffers.c:57: TINFO: Test is using guarded buffers
tst_test.c:2021: TINFO: LTP version: 20250930
tst_test.c:2024: TINFO: Tested kernel: 6.17.9-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT
@1763732790 aarch64
tst_kconfig.c:88: TINFO: Parsing kernel config '/proc/config.gz'
tst_kconfig.c:676: TINFO: CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS kernel option detected
which might slow the execution
tst_test.c:1842: TINFO: Overall timeout per run is 0h 21m 36s
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: request points to unaccessible memory : EFAULT (14)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: mnt_ids points to unaccessible memory : EFAULT (14)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid flags : EINVAL (22)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: insufficient mnt_id_req.size : EINVAL (22)
listmount04.c:128: TFAIL: invalid mnt_id_req.spare expected EINVAL: EBADF (9)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid mnt_id_req.param : EINVAL (22)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: invalid mnt_id_req.mnt_id : EINVAL (22)
listmount04.c:128: TPASS: non-existant mnt_id : ENOENT (2)

Summary:
passed   7
failed   1
broken   0
skipped  0
warnings 0


## Build
* kernel: 6.17.9-rc2
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git commit: ddfe918dc24b5818022af062d1685d31fcdb8b3b
* git describe: v6.17.6-1131-gddfe918dc24b
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.17.y/build/v6.17.6-1131-gddfe918dc24b

## Test
* Test details:
https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.17.y/v6.17.6-1131-gddfe918dc24b/ltp-syscalls/listmount04/
* Test log: https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/8533736#L25762
* Test plan: https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/lkft/tests/35nQWH8wgEwiOrUmrLn0I3NGkyh
* Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/35nQUZuM39Pa120Y5iFXGyRw4Or/
* Kernel config:
https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/35nQUZuM39Pa120Y5iFXGyRw4Or/config

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