Re: linux-next: Tree for July 28 ("copy_from_user_overflow" undefined)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:50:37 -0700 Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 07/29/2011 02:45 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > [ CCing all people from 0416 patch ]
> >
> > OK, here a quick review and looking for suspicious commits:
> [snip]
> > -- a/lib/Makefile
> > +++ b/lib/Makefile
> > @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
> >          proportions.o prio_heap.o ratelimit.o show_mem.o \
> >          is_single_threaded.o plist.o decompress.o find_next_bit.o
> >
> > +lib-$(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS) += usercopy.o
> >  lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o
> >  lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
> >
> > So, I can rebuild next-201107{27,28} with
> > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y and look again if the
> > build-breakage in binfmt_misc is gone.
> >
> > Any comments from x86 folk?
> 
> I already noticed this and sent a fixup patch to Andrew. Looks like he
> never picked it up. The real fix is to change that lib-$(CONFIG... to
> obj-$(CONFIG...
> 
> See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/6/6 for the patch.

Thanks, that works.

Adding Andrew to cc list.

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