Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the scsi-mkp tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:49:24 +1100

Hi all,

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 14:07:36 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> After merging the scsi-mkp tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c: In function 'lpfc_debugfs_ras_log_release':
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:2109:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'; did you mean 'kvfree'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>  2109 |  vfree(debug->buffer);
>       |  ^~~~~
>       |  kvfree
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c: In function 'lpfc_debugfs_ras_log_open':
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:2150:18: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'; did you mean 'kvmalloc'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>  2150 |  debug->buffer = vmalloc(size);
>       |                  ^~~~~~~
>       |                  kvmalloc
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:2150:16: warning: assignment to 'char *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>  2150 |  debug->buffer = vmalloc(size);
>       |                ^
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   95bfc6d8ad86 ("scsi: lpfc: Make FW logging dynamically configurable")
> 
> I have used the scsi-mkp tree from next-20191024 for today.

This build failure now appears in the scsi tree build.  I have applied the
fix from James Smart for today.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell