Subject: Re: linux-next: slab tree build failure

From: Catalin Marinas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:35:09 +0100

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 09:10 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Stephen Rothwell<[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > net/wireless/scan.c: In function 'cfg80211_inform_bss':
> > net/wireless/scan.c:499: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmemleak_ignore'
> >
> > Caused by commit 74ce35c0d2261896ed4d49799311a894520f7a94 ("cfg80211:
> > clear cfg80211_inform_bss() from kmemleak reports") from the wireless
> > tree (which should have included linux/kmemleak.h into
> > net/wireless/scan.c).  Some interaction with the slab tree has exposed
> > this.
> >
> > I have reverted the above commit for today.
> 
> AFAICT, you're interested in kmemleak.git, not slab.git. Catalin?

I think that's a commit from Luis. It shouldn't have been merged in the
first instance anyway (we shouldn't randomly ignore kmemleak reports
unless we know for sure why kmemleak thinks it is a leak and we should
write a comment explaining why).

-- 
Catalin