Re: [PATCH v1] binfmt_misc: fix crash when load/unload module

From: kernel test robot
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 06:41:46 EST


Hi Tong,

Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on linus/master]
[also build test ERROR on v5.17-rc1 next-20220124]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Tong-Zhang/binfmt_misc-fix-crash-when-load-unload-module/20220124-083500
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git dd81e1c7d5fb126e5fbc5c9e334d7b3ec29a16a0
config: riscv-randconfig-r001-20220123 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220124/202201241937.i9KSsyAj-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 7b3d30728816403d1fd73cc5082e9fb761262bce)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# install riscv cross compiling tool for clang build
# apt-get install binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu
# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/d649008f3214eb4d94760873831ef5e53c292976
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review Tong-Zhang/binfmt_misc-fix-crash-when-load-unload-module/20220124-083500
git checkout d649008f3214eb4d94760873831ef5e53c292976
# save the config file to linux build tree
mkdir build_dir
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=riscv SHELL=/bin/bash

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> fs/binfmt_misc.c:828:21: error: incompatible pointer types assigning to 'struct ctl_table_header *' from 'struct sysctl_header *' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
binfmt_misc_header = register_sysctl_mount_point("fs/binfmt_misc");
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.


vim +828 fs/binfmt_misc.c

821
822 static int __init init_misc_binfmt(void)
823 {
824 int err = register_filesystem(&bm_fs_type);
825 if (!err)
826 insert_binfmt(&misc_format);
827
> 828 binfmt_misc_header = register_sysctl_mount_point("fs/binfmt_misc");
829 if (!binfmt_misc_header) {
830 pr_warn("Failed to create fs/binfmt_misc sysctl mount point");
831 return -ENOMEM;
832 }
833 return 0;
834 }
835

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