From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
linux- stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: stable-rc 4.9.212-rc1/2e383da55e49: regressions detected in project stable v4.9.y on OE
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:54:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200128115446.GA2680602@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+G9fYs0hK+WaRwdD+64_15Un6fOdEb-RQH0=jZLwJ49nnKK6A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 05:14:33PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> stable-rc 4.9 build failed due to these build error,
>
> drivers/md/bitmap.c:1702:13: error: conflicting types for 'bitmap_free'
> static void bitmap_free(struct bitmap *bitmap)
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/bitmap.h:94:13: note: previous declaration of
> 'bitmap_free' was here
> extern void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/Makefile.build:304: recipe for target 'drivers/md/bitmap.o' failed
>
> suspecting this patch causing this build failure on stable-rc 4.9
>
> bitmap: Add bitmap_alloc(), bitmap_zalloc() and bitmap_free()
> commit c42b65e363ce97a828f81b59033c3558f8fa7f70 upstream.
>
> A lot of code become ugly because of open coding allocations for bitmaps.
>
> Introduce three helpers to allow users be more clear of intention
> and keep their code neat.
>
> Note, due to multiple circular dependencies we may not provide
> the helpers as inliners. For now we keep them exported and, perhaps,
> at some point in the future we will sort out header inclusion and
> inheritance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sorry, my fault, am fixing this up for 4.9 and 4.4 and 4.14 right now...
Will push out new -rcs when working again.
greg k-h
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2020-01-28 11:44 stable-rc 4.9.212-rc1/2e383da55e49: regressions detected in project stable v4.9.y on OE Naresh Kamboju
2020-01-28 11:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-01-28 12:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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