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

From: kernel test robot
Date: Mon Jan 24 2022 - 07:15:53 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: arm-randconfig-c002-20220124 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220124/202201242006.cqM8NznF-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 11.2.0
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
# 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=gcc-11.2.0 make.cross O=build_dir ARCH=arm 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: In function 'init_misc_binfmt':
>> fs/binfmt_misc.c:828:28: error: assignment to 'struct ctl_table_header *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct sysctl_header *' [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
828 | binfmt_misc_header = register_sysctl_mount_point("fs/binfmt_misc");
| ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors


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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