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

[Eric Dumazet]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (arm64
> defconfig) failed like this:
>
> /tmp/next/build/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c: In function 'proc_do_rss_key':
> /tmp/next/build/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:333:23: error: implicit declaration of function 'hex_byte_pack' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   333 |                 pos = hex_byte_pack(pos, netdev_rss_key[i]);
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /tmp/next/build/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c:333:21: error: assignment to 'char *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>   333 |                 pos = hex_byte_pack(pos, netdev_rss_key[i]);
>       |                     ^
>
> Caused by commit
>
>    37b0ea8fef56c (net: expand NETDEV_RSS_KEY_LEN to 256 bytes)
>
> I have used the tree from 20260123 instead.

I will send this fix then, thank you

diff --git a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
index 0f761d4b9447..03aea10073f0 100644
--- a/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
+++ b/net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
+#include <linux/hex.h>

 #include <net/ip.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>