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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Dec 15 2020 - 20:04:38 EST


Hi all,

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:14:38 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c: In function 'cifs_swn_notify':
> fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c:450:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'nla_strlcpy'; did you mean 'nla_strscpy'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 450 | nla_strlcpy(name, info->attrs[CIFS_GENL_ATTR_SWN_RESOURCE_NAME],
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> | nla_strscpy
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 872f69034194 ("treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy.")
>
> interacting with commit
>
> 27228d73f4d2 ("cifs: Set witness notification handler for messages from userspace daemon")
>
> from the cifs tree.
>
> I have applied the following merge fix patch.
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:09:27 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] fixup for "treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy."
>
> conflicting with
>
> "cifs: Set witness notification handler for messages from userspace daemon"
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
> index 642c9eedc8ab..d762d442dfa5 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_swn.c
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ int cifs_swn_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> int state;
>
> if (info->attrs[CIFS_GENL_ATTR_SWN_RESOURCE_NAME]) {
> - nla_strlcpy(name, info->attrs[CIFS_GENL_ATTR_SWN_RESOURCE_NAME],
> + nla_strscpy(name, info->attrs[CIFS_GENL_ATTR_SWN_RESOURCE_NAME],
> sizeof(name));
> } else {
> cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: missing resource name attribute\n", __func__);

This fixup is now needed when the cifs tree is merged with Linus' tree.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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