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

From: Jens Axboe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:01:20 -0600

On 06/28/2017 06:43 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 06/28/2017 02:04 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>> allnoconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> fs/fcntl.o: In function `do_fcntl': 
>> fcntl.c:(.text+0x6d4): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
>> fcntl.c:(.text+0x730): undefined reference to `__get_user_bad'
>>
>> Probably caused by commit
>>
>>   c75b1d9421f8 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints")
>>
>> On powerpc (at least) you cannot use get_user() to fetch anything larger
>> than "unsigned long" i.e. 32 bits on 32 bit powerpc.
>>
>> This has been discussed before (and, I think, a fix attempted).
> 
> Gah, thanks for letting me know. I'll test your patch and queue it
> up to fix this issue.

But put_user() is fine? Just checking here, since the change adds
both a u64 put and get user.

-- 
Jens Axboe