From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Morris Subject: Re: linux-next: origin tree build failure Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:03:23 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20080818100151.c2e9e508.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <17141.1219064130@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from tundra.namei.org ([65.99.196.166]:56365 "EHLO tundra.namei.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752686AbYHROEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:04:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <17141.1219064130@redhat.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Howells Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Linus Torvalds , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, David Fries , LKML On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, David Howells wrote: > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > As expected (reported by David Fries), today's linux-next build (powerpc > > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this: > > > > In file included from include/linux/tracehook.h:52, > > from arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c:13: > > include/linux/security.h: In function 'security_ptrace_traceme': > > include/linux/security.h:1760: error: 'parent' undeclared (first use in this function) > > > > Caused by commit 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40 ("security: Fix > > setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()"). The version of this commit > > that has been in the linux-next tree from Aug 8 to Aug 15 is correct, so > > I have no idea what happened. > > I accidentally posted an old patch which James, maybe, substituted for the > good one that he had. I took the patch you sent me, although after some IRC discussion, what should have happened is that I should have git-cherry-pick'd the patch from the next-creds branch (where it had been tested in linux-next for some time) into for-linus rather than asking for an updated patch. Sorry folks. - James -- James Morris