Re: [PATCH 1/2] [stable-4.9] x86: fix build without CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 15 2018 - 11:49:29 EST


On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I ran into a 4.9 build regression in randconfig testing, starting with the
> KAISER patches:
>
> arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c: In function 'kaiser_init':
> arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c:347:8: error: 'vsyscall_pgprot' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'massage_pgprot'?
>
> This is easy enough to fix, we just need to make the declaration visible
> outside of the #ifdef. This works because the code using it is optimized
> away when vsyscall_enabled() returns false at compile time.
>
> Fixes: 9a0be5afbfbb ("vsyscall: Fix permissions for emulate mode with KAISER/PTI")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for these, I'll queue them up in the next round after these
kernels get released in a few days.

greg k-h