linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the crypto tree

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:44:54 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the crypto tree

Hi Herbert,

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:03:28 +1100 Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 04:44:17PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > After merging the crypto tree, today's (and the past few days)
> > linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) produced these warnings:
> > 
> > crypto/algif_aead.c:561:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> >   .sendmsg = aead_sendmsg,
> >   ^
> > crypto/algif_aead.c:561:2: warning: (near initialization for 'algif_aead_ops.sendmsg')
> > crypto/algif_aead.c:563:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
> >   .recvmsg = aead_recvmsg,
> >   ^
> > crypto/algif_aead.c:563:2: warning: (near initialization for 'algif_aead_ops.recvmsg')
> > 
> > Introduced by commit 400c40cf78da ("crypto: algif - add AEAD support").
> 
> This is a bit of a bummer.  What happened is that net-next has
> killed the kiocb argument to sendmsg/recvmsg.  However, this
> change is obviously not part of the crypto tree and algif_aead
> only exists in the crypto tree.
> 
> So Stephen could you fix this by hand until one of them is merged
> upstream (just kill the first argument in aead_sendmsg/aead_recvmsg)?

No worries, I will put a merge fix patch in from tomorrow (and send you
a copy just in case).

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

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