Linux 4.16: Reported regressions as of Tuesday, 2018-03-27 (Was: Linux 4.16-rc7)

[David Sterba]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:13:32PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 26.03.2018 01:37, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > […] Anyway. Go out and test. And let's hope next week is nice and calm and
> > I can release the final 4.16 next Sunday without any extra  rc's.
> > 
> >                Linus
> 
> Hi! Find below my sixth regression report for Linux 4.16. It lists 7
> regressions I'm currently aware of. 2 were fixed since last weeks
> report; 2 are new.
> 
> Are you aware of any other regressions that got introduced this
> development cycle? Then please let me know by mail (a simple bounce or
> forward to the sender of this email address is enough!). And please tell
> me if there is anything in the report that shouldn't be there.
> 
> Ciao, Thorsten
> 
> == Current regressions ==
> 
> Dell R640 does not boot due to SCSI/SATA failure
> - Status: Afaics still unfixed; lost track, ask reporter for an update
> on Monday morning, no reply yet
> - Cause:  https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/84676c1f21e8
> - Reported: 2018-02-22
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151931128006031
> - Note: Issue understood and even (kind of accidentally) fixed by a
> patch series that was proposed for 4.17 (see links)
> - Last known developer activity: 2018-03-14
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=152102086831636&w=2
> - Other relevant links:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=152051511802229&w=2
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152026091325037

I'm not the original reporter but I can confirm this regression has been
fixed by git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git
scsi-fixes (tag 0c30612d535460af7fe16e7e6ed8b97defe4adbe)

The machine has a HP array and stopped booting some time around rc1. I
tried to bisect it and in the end it was the commit 84676c1f21e8 that I
reverted for testing builds, so I'm sure it's the same issue as you've
been tracking.