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

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 10:22:09 +1100

Hi all,

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:34:00 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> After merging the landlock tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
> In file included from security/landlock/net.c:14:
> security/landlock/net.c: In function 'landlock_add_net_hooks':
> security/landlock/common.h:12:23: error: passing argument 3 of 'security_add_hooks' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>    12 | #define LANDLOCK_NAME "landlock"
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~
>       |                       |
>       |                       char *
> security/landlock/net.c:199:28: note: in expansion of macro 'LANDLOCK_NAME'
>   199 |                            LANDLOCK_NAME);
>       |                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from security/landlock/setup.h:12,
>                  from security/landlock/cred.h:17,
>                  from security/landlock/net.c:15:
> include/linux/lsm_hooks.h:120:53: note: expected 'const struct lsm_id *' but argument is of type 'char *'
>   120 |                                const struct lsm_id *lsmid);
>       |                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   fff69fb03dde ("landlock: Support network rules with TCP bind and connect")
> 
> interacting with commit
> 
>   9b09f11320db ("LSM: Identify modules by more than name")
> 
> from the security tree.
> 
> I have applied the following merge resolution patch.
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:13:32 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] fixup for "landlock: Support network rules with TCP bind and
>  connect"
> 
> interacting with "LSM: Identify modules by more than name"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  security/landlock/net.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/landlock/net.c b/security/landlock/net.c
> index aaa92c2b1f08..efa1b644a4af 100644
> --- a/security/landlock/net.c
> +++ b/security/landlock/net.c
> @@ -196,5 +196,5 @@ static struct security_hook_list landlock_hooks[] __ro_after_init = {
>  __init void landlock_add_net_hooks(void)
>  {
>  	security_add_hooks(landlock_hooks, ARRAY_SIZE(landlock_hooks),
> -			   LANDLOCK_NAME);
> +			   &landlock_lsmid);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.40.1

This is now a conflict between the security tree and Linus' tree.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell