lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <1249328851.18161.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:47:31 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	parisc-linux@...ts.parisc-linux.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: Re: nfs: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type conflict

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 21:21 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 03 August 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > > /home/fjp/projects/kernel/linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:403:
> > > >     error: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type
> > > > conflict
> >
> > If you do a 'make fs/nfs/nfsroot.i', and then look at the resulting
> > file fs/nfs/nfsroot.i, what does the line that defines
> > '__setup_str_nfs_root_setup' look like?
> 
> $ grep __setup_str_nfs_root_setup fs/nfs/nfsroot.i
> 
> static const char __setup_str_nfs_root_setup[] __attribute__ 
> ((__section__(".init.rodata"))) __attribute__((aligned(1))) = "nfsroot="; 
> static struct obs_kernel_param __setup_nfs_root_setup 
> __attribute__((__used__)) __attribute__ ((__section__(".init.setup"))) 
> __attribute__((aligned((sizeof(long))))) = { __setup_str_nfs_root_setup, 
> nfs_root_setup, 0 };

Yup. That matches what I get on an x86_64 platform, where it appears to
compile without any trouble. I can see no reason why it shouldn't
compile on parisc too. In fact you should have tons of these in
init/do_mounts.c: do they generate compile errors too?

Cheers
  Trond

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ