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Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:46:37 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux 4.19.98
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:45:08AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 09:37:18AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Greg KH (2020-01-23 09:28:32)
> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:54:45AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > Quoting Greg KH (2020-01-23 08:46:32)
> > > > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.19.98 kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > commit 3e6b472f474accf757e107919f8ee42e7315ac0d
> > > > Author: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> > > > Date:   Wed Nov 14 09:55:40 2018 -0800
> > > > 
> > > >     efi: Fix debugobjects warning on 'efi_rts_work'
> > > > 
> > > >     [ Upstream commit ef1491e791308317bb9851a0ad380c4a68b58d54 ]
> > > > 
> > > >     The following commit:
> > > > 
> > > >       9dbbedaa6171 ("efi: Make efi_rts_work accessible to efi page fault handler")
> > > > 
> > > >     converted 'efi_rts_work' from an auto variable to a global variable.
> > > >     However, when submitting the work, INIT_WORK_ONSTACK() was still used,
> > > >     causing the following complaint from debugobjects:
> > > > 
> > > >       ODEBUG: object 00000000ed27b500 is NOT on stack 00000000c7d38760, but annotated.
> > > > 
> > > >     Change the macro to just INIT_WORK() to eliminate the warning.
> > > > 
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> > > >     Acked-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> > > >     Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > >     Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > > >     Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > > >     Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
> > > >     Fixes: 9dbbedaa6171 ("efi: Make efi_rts_work accessible to efi page fault handler")
> > > >     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114175544.12860-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> > > > 
> > > > was incorrectly applied to v4.19.41 and causes lockdep complaints for
> > > > the onstack efi_rts_work being initialised by INIT_WORK().
> > > 
> > > Incorrectly how?  Fuzz off, or it shouldn't be applied at all?  Should
> > > this be reverted, or just fixed up, and if fixed up, do you have a patch
> > > to fix it?
> > 
> > Just reverted. It applies to 9dbbedaa6171 which moved the efi_rts_work
> > off the stack, but is not in v4.19.y, so efi_rts_work is still a local
> > and needs the INIT_WORK_ONSTACK annotation.
> 
> Ok, thanks, will go revert this and push out a new release with that
> fix, thanks for letting me know.

Wait, that commit happened back in 4.19.41 which was released in May
2019, so I don't think this is a rush, right?  I'll just queue it up for
the next release instead of pushing out a rush one, thanks.

greg k-h