linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (UML)

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Message-ID: <ZQoQLJnGFxjA8p5E@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:18:36 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-um <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (UML)

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 08:42:07AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/18/23 23:37, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Changes since 20230918:
> > 
> > New tree: kvm-ppc
> > 
> > The mm tree gained a boot warning for which I reverted 5 commits.
> > 
> > Non-merge commits (relative to Linus' tree): 5750
> >  3717 files changed, 446028 insertions(+), 107378 deletions(-)
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
> on i386 or x86_64:
> 
> ../arch/x86/um/../kernel/module.c: In function 'execmem_arch_params':
> ../arch/x86/um/../kernel/module.c:54:50: error: implicit declaration of function 'kaslr_enabled'; did you mean 'kasan_enabled'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>    54 |         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && kaslr_enabled())
>       |                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |                                                  kasan_enabled
> 
> 
> 
> git blames this on:
> 
> commit 12633d679796
> Author: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> Date:   Tue Sep 19 15:14:03 2023 +1000
> 
>     Revert "arch: make execmem setup available regardless of CONFIG_MODULES"
>     
>     This reverts commit 3300c3af20090ff5e03e5c4bf2ef2cfaa03d4e9b.

Thanks for the report, FWIW, our CI is hitting this, too.

Was 12633d679796 a pure revert, or was it manually modified?

Oh 3300c3 was patch 10/13; maybe a clean revert is not possible without
other reverts in addition?
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230918072955.2507221-11-rppt@kernel.org/

Seems like there's more info in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230919152031.GF3303@kernel.org/