Re: Linux 5.15-rc3

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Sep 27 2021 - 17:47:27 EST


On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:48:42PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [ Please CC me I am not subscribed to LKML and linux-rdma ]
>
> Hi,
>
> with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_QIB=m I observe a build-error since Linux
> v5.13-rc1 release.
> This is with LLVM/Clang >= v13.0.0-rc3 on my Debian/unstable AMD64 system.
>
> For details see ClangBuiltLinux issue #1452 (see [1]).
>
> The fix is pending in rdma.git#for-rc (see [2]):
>
> commit 3110b942d36b961858664486d72f815d78c956c3
> "IB/qib: Fix clang confusion of NULL pointer comparison"
>
> Dunno if there was a pull-request from linux-rdma folks.
> Cannot say if it is worth taking this directly...?

It should come as a PR this week, I don't think we need to do anything
special urgent here, do we?

Jason