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

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Tue May 12 2020 - 06:20:34 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:18:11PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the pidfd tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
>
> fs/nsfs.c:232:6: error: redefinition of 'proc_ns_file'
> 232 | bool proc_ns_file(const struct file *file)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from fs/nsfs.c:6:
> include/linux/proc_fs.h:194:20: note: previous definition of 'proc_ns_file' was here
> 194 | static inline bool proc_ns_file(const struct file *file)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 1e76b8ad203a ("nsproxy: attach to namespaces via pidfds")
>
> I have applied the following hack for today:

Thanks for spotting this. I'll fix this now.

Christian

>
> From 07065344c6fb39c440b0de5f75842066bc97a675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:08:51 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] nsproxy: protect proc_ns_file() when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nsfs.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
> index 800c1d0eb0d0..9215ad7597d6 100644
> --- a/fs/nsfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nsfs.c
> @@ -229,10 +229,12 @@ int ns_get_name(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task,
> return res;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> bool proc_ns_file(const struct file *file)
> {
> return file->f_op == &ns_file_operations;
> }
> +#endif
>
> struct file *proc_ns_fget(int fd)
> {
> --
> 2.26.2
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell