Re: linux-next: boot failure after merge of the akpm tree

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 14:13:50 EST


On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:21:52AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 06:46:22PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Bisected to commit
> >
> > f00ff38c1dfa ("sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper")
> >
> > I have reverted that complete 6 patch series for today.
>
> I'll be trying to reproduce and fix, thanks for the report!

OK please try this patch, I can boot with this just fine on ppc64le:

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 70acd2a100fd..180adf7da785 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static struct ctl_table _name##_base_table[] = { \
.mode = 0555, \
.child = _table, \
}, \
+ { }, \
}

extern int __register_sysctl_base(struct ctl_table *base_table);