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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Apr 21 2014 - 21:34:56 EST


Hi Eric,

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:18:44 -0700 ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > After merging the userns tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > fs/namespace.c: In function 'new_mountpoint':
> > fs/namespace.c:725:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'hash' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > struct list_head *chain = mountpoint_hashtable + hash(NULL, dentry);
> > ^
> > fs/namespace.c:725:28: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
> > struct list_head *chain = mountpoint_hashtable + hash(NULL, dentry);
> > ^
> > fs/namespace.c:741:2: warning: passing argument 2 of 'hlist_add_head' from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
> > hlist_add_head(&mp->m_hash, chain);
> > ^
> > In file included from include/linux/signal.h:4:0,
> > from include/linux/syscalls.h:72,
> > from fs/namespace.c:11:
> > include/linux/list.h:637:20: note: expected 'struct hlist_head *' but argument is of type 'struct list_head *'
> > static inline void hlist_add_head(struct hlist_node *n, struct hlist_head *h)
> > ^
> >
> > So clearly my merge conflict resolution was not sufficient.
> >
> > I will just drop the userns tree for today. Please give me some help
> > with the resolutions - or fix this stuff up yourselves.
>
> You had this exact conflict succesfully resolved yesterday. Sigh.
>
> Line 725 of fs/namespace.c: Simply need to read.
> struct hlist_head *chain = mp_hash(dentry);

Yes, sorry about that - fixed for today (hopefully).
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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