Eight new stable kernels

[Posted March 26, 2024 by jake]

Sasha Levin has announced the release of the 6.8.2, 6.7.11, 6.6.23, 6.1.83, 5.15.153, 5.10.214, 5.4.273, and 4.19.311 stable kernels. Each contains a long list of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

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Eight new stable kernels

Posted Mar 27, 2024 8:14 UTC (Wed) by ncopa (guest, #114860) [Link]

At least 6.6.23 and 6.1.83 does not build: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218647

In file included from main.c:73:
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:7:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
7 | u32 cnt;
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:8:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
8 | u32 ids[];
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:12:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
12 | u32 cnt;
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:13:9: error: unknown type name 'u32'
13 | u32 flags;
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:15:17: error: unknown type name 'u32'
15 | u32 id;
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:16:17: error: unknown type name 'u32'
16 | u32 flags;
| ^~~
/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/include/linux/btf_ids.h:215:8: error: unknown type name 'u32'
215 | extern u32 btf_tracing_ids[];
| ^~~
make[4]: *** [/home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/linux-6.6/tools/build/Makefile.build:98: /home/ncopa/aports/main/linux-lts/src/build-lts.x86_64/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids
/main.o] Error 1

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Mar 27, 2024 11:15 UTC (Wed) by JMB (guest, #74439) [Link]

It seems that Ubuntu kernel PPA (https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline) had also problems with amd64/builds
for the latest kernels (6.8.2 and 6.7.11) ... this happens from time to time ... but due to the former comment
I thought checking would be interesting - especially as I want to use current kernel soon.
Waiting seems a good thing ...

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Mar 27, 2024 18:09 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

It compiled and runs fine for me on Debian 12 / amd64 using "make olddefconfig" with Debian's standard config settings as the starting point. However, the code wasn't available for several hours after the LWN announcement. I'm assuming Sasha Levin is having some teething pains taking over Greg KH's workflow and that things will settle down wrt code availability and timing of the announcement.

Anyway, thanks for stepping in and for all your work on this, Sasha.