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

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 22:36:07 EST


On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:39:21AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the vfs tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> fs/eventfd.c: In function 'eventfd_read':
> fs/eventfd.c:226:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'iov_iter_count' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 226 | if (iov_iter_count(to) < sizeof(ucnt))
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from include/linux/file.h:9,
> from fs/eventfd.c:9:
> fs/eventfd.c:257:15: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_to_iter'; did you mean 'copy_to_user'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 257 | if (unlikely(copy_to_iter(&ucnt, sizeof(ucnt), to) != sizeof(ucnt)))
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Caused by commit
>
> a6515b3a7410 ("eventfd: convert to f_op->read_iter()")
>
> I have applied the following patch for today:

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