linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:26:44 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:33:35 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:15:58 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is weird -- my original patch doesn't touch audit_get_sessionid() at all:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=7bbfec58ed33d5e74043530b87992f16da718ba2
> 
> That patch has been broken multiple times as things change under its
> feet.  I've just repaired my most recent attempt to repair it.
> 
> 
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Subject: audit.h: replace defines with C stubs
> 
> Replace the #defines used when CONFIG_AUDIT or CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALLS are
> disabled so we get type checking during those builds.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

OK, so I replaced the old version of this patch in the akpm tree in
linux-next with this one (with the kuid_t patch mashed in).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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