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Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:13:39 -0800
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure after merge of the akpm tree

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:21:52AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 06:46:22PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Bisected to commit
> > 
> >   f00ff38c1dfa ("sysctl: add and use base directory declarer and registration helper")
> > 
> > I have reverted that complete 6 patch series for today.
> 
> I'll be trying to reproduce and fix, thanks for the report!

OK please try this patch, I can boot with this just fine on ppc64le:

diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 70acd2a100fd..180adf7da785 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static struct ctl_table _name##_base_table[] = {			\
 		.mode		= 0555,					\
 		.child		= _table,				\
 	},								\
+	{ },								\
 }
 
 extern int __register_sysctl_base(struct ctl_table *base_table);