Re: [PATCH 5.4 00/21] 5.4.117-rc1 review

Guenter Roeck
2021-05-05T21:49:46Z

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 02:04:14PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.4.117 release.
> There are 21 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
>
> Responses should be made by Fri, 07 May 2021 11:23:16 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.4.117-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> -------------
> Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
>
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Linux 5.4.117-rc1
>
> Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
> perf/core: Fix unconditional security_locked_down() call
>
> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> ovl: allow upperdir inside lowerdir
>
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> scsi: ufs: Unlock on a couple error paths
>
> Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
> platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Correct thermal sensor allocation
>
> Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>
> ASoC: ak5558: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
>
> Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@nxp.com>
> ASoC: ak4458: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE

Twice ? Why ?

This gives me a compile error (the second time it is added at the wrong
place).

chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: /build/arm-generic/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159/work/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1/sound/soc/codecs/ak4458.c:722:1: error: redefinition of '__mod_of__ak4458_of_match_device_table'
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ak4458_of_match);
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: ^
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: /build/arm-generic/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159/work/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1/include/linux/module.h:227:21: note: expanded from macro 'MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE'
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: extern typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: ^
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: <scratch space>:119:1: note: expanded from here
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: __mod_of__ak4458_of_match_device_table
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: ^
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: /build/arm-generic/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159/work/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1/sound/soc/codecs/ak4458.c:711:1: note: previous definition is here
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ak4458_of_match);
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: ^
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: /build/arm-generic/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159/work/chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1/include/linux/module.h:227:21: note: expanded from macro 'MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE'
chromeos-kernel-5_4-5.4.117_rc1-r2159: extern typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \

Oddly enough, I only see the error when I try to merge the
code into ChromeOS, not in my test builds. I guess that has
to do with "-Werror".

Guenter