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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 11:45:57 +0100
From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, 
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] vfs mount api updates

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 10:52 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 05:02:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 04:47, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This contains the work to retrieve detailed information about mounts via two
> > > new system calls.
> >
> > Gaah. While I have an arm64 laptop now, I don't do arm64 builds in
> > between each pull like I do x86 ones.
> >
> > I *did* just start one, because I got the arm64 pull request.
> >
> > And this fails the arm64 build, because __NR_statmount and
> > __NR_listmount (457 and 458 respectively) exceed the compat system
> > call array size, which is
> >
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h:
> >   #define __NR_compat_syscalls            457
> >
> > I don't think this is a merge error, I think the error is there in the
> > original, but I'm about to go off and have dinner, so I'm just sending
> > this out for now.
> >
> > How was this not noted in linux-next? Am I missing something?
>
> Urgh, that is surprising, and I just confirmed that linux-next builds
> fine! The reason seems to be because there are also some new lsm
> syscalls being added there (lsm_get_self_attr and friends) which bump
> __NR_compat_syscalls to 460 and then Stephen Rothwell's mighty merging
> magic adjusted this up to 462 in the merge of the lsm tree.
>
> > Now, admittedly this looks like an easy mistake to make due to that
> > whole odd situation where the compat system calls are listed in
> > unistd32.h, but then the max number is in unistd.h, but I would still
> > have expected this to have raised flags before it hit my tree..
>
> I suppose the two options for now are either to merge the lsm stuff and
> adjust __NR_compat_syscalls as Stephen did, or to take this patch from
> Florian in the meantime:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109010906.429652-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
>

Applied upstream:

https://git.kernel.org/linus/f0a78b3e2a0c842cc7b4c2686f4a35681f02ca72

-Sedat-

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