Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Aug 18 2008 - 08:55:51 EST


Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As expected (reported by David Fries), today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from include/linux/tracehook.h:52,
> from arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c:13:
> include/linux/security.h: In function 'security_ptrace_traceme':
> include/linux/security.h:1760: error: 'parent' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> Caused by commit 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40 ("security: Fix
> setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()"). The version of this commit
> that has been in the linux-next tree from Aug 8 to Aug 15 is correct, so
> I have no idea what happened.

I accidentally posted an old patch which James, maybe, substituted for the
good one that he had.

David
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