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charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2536c3e7-18d2-47cb-88c6-36f94c61c1c6@kernel.org> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 08:38:29PM +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote: > > > Le 23/02/2026 à 19:07, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) a écrit : > > +Kees > > > > Hello, > > > > Le 23/02/2026 à 17:48, Christian Zigotzky a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > > > > Compiling issue for e5500 machines for the RC1 of kernel 7.0: > > > > > > arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c: In function 'kvmppc_e500_tlb_init': > > > arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct > > > tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [- > > > Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] > > >    923 |  vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref, > > >        |                          ^ > > > arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:928:26: error: assignment to 'struct > > > tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [- > > > Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] > > >    928 |  vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref, > > > > > > Temporary solution: # CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION is not set > > > > > > Please solve this issue. > > > > > > > Must be one of: > > > > 189f164e573e Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses > > bf4afc53b77a Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default > > GFP_KERNEL argument > > 69050f8d6d07 treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar > > types > > > > Can you try following change: > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c > index 48580c85f23b..75ed1496ead5 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c > @@ -920,12 +920,12 @@ int kvmppc_e500_tlb_init(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500 > *vcpu_e500) > vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[0] = 0; > vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[1] = KVM_E500_TLB0_SIZE; > > - vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref, > + vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv, > vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[0].entries); > if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0]) > goto free_vcpu; > > - vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref, > + vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv, > vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[1].entries); > if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1]) > goto free_vcpu; That looks like the correct fix to me. The old type was the correct size, but was just the wrong type. Sorry I missed it when doing my tree-wide multi-arch builds! What build target (or Kconfig) was needed to reach this code? Fixes: 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types") Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Thanks! -- Kees Cook