linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -stable 3.10 3.12 3.13] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: fix compilation warning

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Message-ID: <552CCC3E.6000901@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:13:50 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
CC:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal.mostafa@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -stable 3.10 3.12 3.13] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: fix
 compilation warning

On 04/13/2015, 06:26 PM, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 16:41 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Stable commit "core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in
>> skb_zerocopy and handle errors", upstream commit
>> 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c, was not correctly backported
>> and missed to change a const 'from' parameter to non-const.  This
>> results in a new batch of warnings:
> 
> Just FYI, the backport in 3.13-stable[0] -- Ben Hutchings' work --
> actually does not exhibit this problem.  nfqnl_zcopy() already has the
> const removed and the file yields no compile warnings.

That is quite interesting, because 3.10's version supposed to be the
Ben's 3.13 backport too, according to the commit log. Maybe a
wrong/older version was merged to 3.10 (and 3.12)?

> [0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2287ffc0e9c3d39cbc4ea9e2312640758201dfc

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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