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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-06T07:59:08Z

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 02:49:38PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 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".

Ah, these came into Linus's tree with two different commits, which is
why I didn't notice it was already present. I'll go drop these two from
all stable trees now, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h