Re: Linux 3.18.55

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 14:51:07 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 08:32:19PM +0200, Philip MÃller wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> adding following patch[1] will result in following error on 32bit host:
>
> CC [M] arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue.o
> AS [M] arch/x86/crypto/salsa20-i586-asm_32.o
> CC fs/open.o
> kernel/fork.c: In function âdup_task_structâ:
> kernel/fork.c:341:22: error: implicit declaration of function
> âget_random_longâ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> tsk->stack_canary = get_random_long();
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> CC fs/read_write.o
> ...
> LD security/integrity/built-in.o
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:257: kernel/fork.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> CC security/keys/gc.o
> CC ipc/ipcns_notifier.o
>
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-3.18/stackprotector-increase-the-per-task-stack-canary-s-random-range-from-32-bits-to-64-bits-on-64-bit-platforms.patch

Didn't I drop this patch from the queue? Oh crap, I only dropped it
from 4.4, sorry about that, I'll go revert it for the next release, my
fault.

greg k-h