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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:39:53 -0700
From:   John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:     Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

On 06/19/2017 09:56 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the kspp tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> security/apparmor/file.c: In function 'aa_path_link':
> security/apparmor/file.c:475:23: error: positional initialization of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute [-Werror=designated-init]
>   struct path link = { new_dir->mnt, new_dentry };
>                        ^
> security/apparmor/file.c:475:23: note: (near initialization for 'link')
> security/apparmor/file.c:475:37: error: positional initialization of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute [-Werror=designated-init]
>   struct path link = { new_dir->mnt, new_dentry };
>                                      ^
> security/apparmor/file.c:475:37: note: (near initialization for 'link')
> security/apparmor/file.c:476:25: error: positional initialization of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute [-Werror=designated-init]
>   struct path target = { new_dir->mnt, old_dentry };
>                          ^
> security/apparmor/file.c:476:25: note: (near initialization for 'target')
> security/apparmor/file.c:476:39: error: positional initialization of field in 'struct' declared with 'designated_init' attribute [-Werror=designated-init]
>   struct path target = { new_dir->mnt, old_dentry };
>                                        ^
> security/apparmor/file.c:476:39: note: (near initialization for 'target')
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   1a12979f61e4 ("randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization")
> 
> interacting with commit
> 
>   8014370f1257 ("apparmor: move path_link mediation to using labels")
> 
> from the security tree.
> 
> I added the following merge fix patch for today:
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:50:36 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: put back designators in struct initialisers
> 
> Fixes: 8014370f1257 ("apparmor: move path_link mediation to using labels")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>

> ---
>  security/apparmor/file.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/file.c b/security/apparmor/file.c
> index b6e8e5b11e05..3382518b87fa 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/file.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/file.c
> @@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ static int profile_path_link(struct aa_profile *profile,
>  int aa_path_link(struct aa_label *label, struct dentry *old_dentry,
>  		 const struct path *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry)
>  {
> -	struct path link = { new_dir->mnt, new_dentry };
> -	struct path target = { new_dir->mnt, old_dentry };
> +	struct path link = { .mnt = new_dir->mnt, .dentry = new_dentry };
> +	struct path target = { .mnt = new_dir->mnt, .dentry = old_dentry };
>  	struct path_cond cond = {
>  		d_backing_inode(old_dentry)->i_uid,
>  		d_backing_inode(old_dentry)->i_mode
>