Re: lib/xz: Put CRC32_POLY_LE in xz_private.h

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Oct 04 2018 - 21:37:17 EST


On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 02:54:31 UTC, Joel Stanley wrote:
> This fixes a regression introduced by faa16bc404d72a5 ("lib: Use
> existing define with polynomial").
>
> The cleanup added a dependency on include/linux, which broke the PowerPC
> boot wrapper/decompresser when KERNEL_XZ is enabled:
>
> BOOTCC arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.o
> In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c:233,
> from arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.c:42:
> arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_crc32.c:18:10: fatal error:
> linux/crc32poly.h: No such file or directory
> #include <linux/crc32poly.h>
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The powerpc decompresser is a hairy corner of the kernel. Even while building
> a 64-bit kernel it needs to build a 32-bit binary and therefore avoid including
> files from include/linux.
>
> This allows users of the xz library to avoid including headers from
> 'include/linux/' while still achieving the cleanup of the magic number.
>
> Fixes: faa16bc404d72a5 ("lib: Use existing define with polynomial")
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/242cdad873a75652f97c35aad61270

cheers