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

From: David Howells <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:55:30 +0100

Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> As expected (reported by David Fries), today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> In file included from include/linux/tracehook.h:52,
>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c:13:
> include/linux/security.h: In function 'security_ptrace_traceme':
> include/linux/security.h:1760: error: 'parent' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> Caused by commit 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40 ("security: Fix
> setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()").  The version of this commit
> that has been in the linux-next tree from Aug 8 to Aug 15 is correct, so
> I have no idea what happened.

I accidentally posted an old patch which James, maybe, substituted for the
good one that he had.

David