Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 20

From: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:58:06 +0200

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:52:52AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 05:11:15PM +0800, Zhangshaokun wrote:
> > There is a compiler failure on arm64 platform, as follow:
> > 
> >   AS      arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.o
> >   CC      kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
> > In file included from security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c:30:0:
> > security/integrity/ima/ima.h:176:7: error: redeclaration of enumerator ‘NONE’
> >   hook(NONE)   \
> >        ^
> > security/integrity/ima/ima.h:188:34: note: in definition of macro ‘__ima_hook_enumify’
> >  #define __ima_hook_enumify(ENUM) ENUM,
> >                                   ^
> > security/integrity/ima/ima.h:191:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘__ima_hooks’
> >   __ima_hooks(__ima_hook_enumify)
> >   ^
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h:15:0,
> >                  from ./include/acpi/acpi_io.h:7,
> >                  from ./include/linux/acpi.h:47,
> >                  from ./include/linux/tpm.h:26,
> >                  from security/integrity/ima/ima.h:25,
> >                  from security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c:30:
> > ./include/linux/efi.h:1716:2: note: previous definition of ‘NONE’ was here
> >   NONE,
> >   ^
> > scripts/Makefile.build:276: recipe for target 'security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o' failed
> > make[3]: *** [security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o] Error 1
> > 
> > I dug it and it is the commit 901615cb916d ("tpm: move tpm_chip definition to include/linux/tpm.h")
> 
> This results from a new include in tpm.h:
> 
>   #include <linux/acpi.h>
> 
> Must be fixed either in include/linux/efi.h or security/integrity/ima.h as
> those files have a name collision. Makes me wonder why neither has taken
> care of prefixing the constants properly.

Preferably both subsystems should be fixed with proper 'EFI_' and 'IMA_'
prefixes. Defining a constant named as NONE in a non-generic subsystem
(e.g. not part of the core data structures of Linux) and especially
exporting it to include/linux is not too well considered act.

/Jarkko