Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:35:48 +1000

Hi all,

On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:01:17 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/pdaudiocf.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section
> arch/x86/ras/mce_amd_inj.o: warning: objtool: inj_readme_read() falls through to next function extcpu_fops_open()
> sound/sound_core.o: warning: objtool: register_sound_special_device() falls through to next function register_sound_special()
> 
> and many more like those. Also:
> 
> In file included from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/bitmap.h:8:0,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/cpumask.h:11,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:4,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:10,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:20,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:4,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:52,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/thread_info.h:37,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:6,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/preempt.h:80,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/mmzone.h:7,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/gfp.h:5,
>                  from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:11:
> In function 'memcpy',
>     inlined from 'relocate_restore_code' at /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:150:2,
>     inlined from 'swsusp_arch_resume' at /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c:185:8:
> /home/sfr/next/next/include/linux/string.h:309:4: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
>     __read_overflow2();
>     ^
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   088a5ecf7581 ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
> 
> We really need to fix all the known problems it detects *before*
> merging this commit ...
> 
> I have reverted it for today.

I am still needing to revert this every day ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell