Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 18:16:56 EST


On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:33 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> >> Fixes: 8014370f1257 ("apparmor: move path_link mediation to using labels")
>> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Just a ping; this needs to get into -next to avoid build errors.
>
> Surely Linus will resolve this when he pulls the trees in?

It's not a merge glitch, it's a refactoring glitch. John's commit in
security-next ("apparmor: move path_link mediation to using labels")
undid an earlier commit 8486adf0d755 ("apparmor: use designated
initializers") from v4.11. This patch is needed for security-next.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security