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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, September 29, 2016 03:54:24 PM Chen, Yu C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:25 PM
> > To: Stephen Rothwell
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; H. Peter Anvin; Peter Zijlstra; linux-
> > next@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Denys Vlasenko; Chen, Yu
> > C
> > Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree
> > 
> > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 01:20:07 PM Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > > allmodconfig) failed like this:
> > >
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c: In function 'hibernation_e820_save':
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:236:15: error: passing argument 1 of
> > 'get_e820_md5' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-
> > pointer-types]
> > >   get_e820_md5(&e820_saved, buf);
> > >                ^
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:203:12: note: expected 'struct e820map *'
> > but argument is of type 'struct e820map **'
> > >  static int get_e820_md5(struct e820map *map, void *buf)
> > >             ^
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c: In function 'hibernation_e820_mismatch':
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:249:21: error: passing argument 1 of
> > 'get_e820_md5' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-
> > pointer-types]
> > >   ret = get_e820_md5(&e820_saved, result);
> > >                      ^
> > > arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:203:12: note: expected 'struct e820map *'
> > but argument is of type 'struct e820map **'
> > >  static int get_e820_md5(struct e820map *map, void *buf)
> > >             ^
> > >
> > > Caused by commit
> > >
> > >   475339684ef1 ("x86/e820: Prepare e280 code for switch to dynamic
> > > storage")
> > >
> > > interacting with commit
> > >
> > >   6f95ad2b6162 ("PM / hibernate: Verify e820 memory map by MD5
> > > digest")
> > >
> > > from the pm tree.
> > >
> > > I have applied the following merge fix patch:
> > >
> > > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:13:45 +1000
> > > Subject: [PATCH] pm/hibernate: merge fix for type of e820_saved
> > > changing
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c
> > > b/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c index 72f2c9531b03..904048f7a9c9
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c
> > > @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static int get_e820_md5(struct e820map *map, void
> > > *buf)
> > >
> > >  static void hibernation_e820_save(void *buf)  {
> > > -	get_e820_md5(&e820_saved, buf);
> > > +	get_e820_md5(e820_saved, buf);
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  static bool hibernation_e820_mismatch(void *buf) @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
> > > static bool hibernation_e820_mismatch(void *buf)
> > >  	if (!memcmp(result, buf, MD5_DIGEST_SIZE))
> > >  		return false;
> > >
> > > -	ret = get_e820_md5(&e820_saved, result);
> > > +	ret = get_e820_md5(e820_saved, result);
> > >  	if (ret)
> > >  		return true;
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Looks good to me, thanks Stephen!
> > 
> > Rafael
> Thanks for the fix!
> 
> I made a double check of the patch :
> "x86/e820: Prepare e280 code for switch to dynamic storage"
> It looks like this patch has reallocate the e820 & e820_save to their actual size:
> +	size = offsetof(struct e820map, map) + sizeof(struct e820entry) * e820->nr_map;
> +	n = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> however the previous patch to verify the md5 hash during hibernation will
> use the original e820_map structure by sizeof(struct e820map), which might 
> read invalid value after the latest patch applied. I think I need to modify the 
> hibernation e820 checking patch to only generate  md5 digest based on the actual 
> e820_save size by sizeof(struct e820entry) * e820->nr_map.
> 
> I don't have a machine in hand now, will test later and give feedback later. Thanks again!

OK, dropping the hibernation patch for now.

I'll wait for an update on top of 4.9-rc1.

Thanks,
Rafael