Re: [PATCH 6.12 000/562] 6.12.58-rc2 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 03:48:53PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 11/11/25 06:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.58 release.
> > There are 562 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:22:51 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> link.c: In function ‘is_x86_ibt_enabled’:
> link.c:288:37: error: array type has incomplete element type ‘struct
> kernel_config_option’
>   288 |         struct kernel_config_option options[] = {
>       |                                     ^~~~~~~
> In file included from /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/kernel.h:8,
>                  from main.h:14,
>                  from link.c:17:
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/build_bug.h:16:51:
> error: bit-field ‘<anonymous>’ width not an integer constant
>    16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e));
> })))
>       |                                                   ^
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:26:33:
> note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO’
>    26 | #define __must_be_array(a) BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__same_type((a),
> &(a)[0]))
>       |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/kernel.h:103:59:
> note: in expansion of macro ‘__must_be_array’
>   103 | #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) +
> __must_be_array(arr))
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> link.c:291:22: note: in expansion of macro ‘ARRAY_SIZE’
>   291 |         char *values[ARRAY_SIZE(options)] = { };
>       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~
> link.c:294:13: warning: implicit declaration of function
> ‘read_kernel_config’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   294 |         if (read_kernel_config(options, ARRAY_SIZE(options), values,
> NULL))
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/kernel.h:8,
>                  from main.h:14,
>                  from link.c:17:
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/build_bug.h:16:51:
> error: bit-field ‘<anonymous>’ width not an integer constant
>    16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e));
> })))
>       |                                                   ^
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:26:33:
> note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO’
>    26 | #define __must_be_array(a) BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__same_type((a),
> &(a)[0]))
>       |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /u01/hamogala/stable_rc_testing/linux-stable-rc/tools/include/linux/kernel.h:103:59:
> note: in expansion of macro ‘__must_be_array’
>   103 | #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) +
> __must_be_array(arr))
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> link.c:294:41: note: in expansion of macro ‘ARRAY_SIZE’
>   294 |         if (read_kernel_config(options, ARRAY_SIZE(options), values,
> NULL))
>       |                                         ^~~~~~~~~~
> link.c:291:15: warning: unused variable ‘values’ [-Wunused-variable]
>   291 |         char *values[ARRAY_SIZE(options)] = { };
>       |               ^~~~~~
> link.c:288:37: warning: unused variable ‘options’ [-Wunused-variable]
>   288 |         struct kernel_config_option options[] = {
>       |                                     ^~~~~~~
> make: *** [Makefile:249: link.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> 
> I see this with bpftool build.
> 
> let us drop this commit ?
> 
> commit: c8271196124a ("bpftool: Add CET-aware symbol matching for x86_64
> architectures")
> 

Already dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h