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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Aug 26 2021 - 11:38:22 EST




On August 26, 2021 12:52:05 AM PDT, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>After merging the kspp tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
>allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
>In file included from ./usr/include/linux/posix_types.h:5,
> from ./usr/include/linux/types.h:9,
> from ./usr/include/rdma/rdma_user_rxe.h:37,
> from <command-line>:32:
>./usr/include/rdma/rdma_user_rxe.h:134:24: error: unknown type name 'u8'
> 134 | __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, inline_data);
> | ^~
>./usr/include/linux/stddef.h:42:3: note: in definition of macro '__DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY'
> 42 | TYPE NAME[]; \
> | ^~~~

Thanks -- I've fixed this now. Typo in conversion. :)

-Kees