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

From: Martin Wilck
Date: Wed Sep 06 2017 - 08:33:09 EST


Hello Stephen,

On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 18:21 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> In file included from
> /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/linux/uuid.h:21:0,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/uuid.h:19,
> from
> /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:12,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/scripts/mod/devicetable-
> offsets.c:2:
> /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/string.h: In function
> 'memcpy_and_pad':
> /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/string.h:450:3: error: implicit
> declaration of function 'fortify_panic' [-Werror=implicit-function-
> declaration]
> fortify_panic(__func__);
> ^
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 9b04e51112ba ("fortify: use WARN instead of BUG for now")
>
> interacting with commit
>
> 01f33c336e2d ("string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()")
>
> from the block tree.
>
> I have applied the following merge fix patch:
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:13:43 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] fortify: use WARN instead of BUG for now fix
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/string.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index edd2b6154b80..e3b713114732 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest,
> size_t dest_len,
> __read_overflow3();
> }
> if (dest_size < dest_len)
> - fortify_panic(__func__);
> + fortify_overflow(__func__);
> if (dest_len > count) {
> memcpy(dest, src, count);
> memset(dest + count, pad, dest_len - count);
> --
> 2.13.2

Arnd Bergmann spotted another problem with that patch. I decided to rip
out the "fortify" related code. I'll send a patch in a follow-up email.

Regards,
Martin

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