Re: [PATCH v17 2/4] overlayfs: handle XATTR_NOSECURITY flag for get xattr method

From: kernel test robot
Date: Tue Oct 20 2020 - 18:39:34 EST


Hi Mark,

Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on miklos-vfs/overlayfs-next]
[also build test ERROR on linus/master next-20201016]
[cannot apply to ext4/dev security/next-testing v5.9]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Mark-Salyzyn/overlayfs-override_creds-off-nested-get-xattr-fix/20201021-031941
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next
config: sparc-randconfig-s031-20201020 (attached as .config)
compiler: sparc-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0
reproduce:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# apt-get install sparse
# sparse version: v0.6.3-dirty
# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/4db43126fb07e97fad2a0f2eda02fa73b8e07f21
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review Mark-Salyzyn/overlayfs-override_creds-off-nested-get-xattr-fix/20201021-031941
git checkout 4db43126fb07e97fad2a0f2eda02fa73b8e07f21
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=sparc

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

In file included from fs/overlayfs/super.c:18:
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h: In function 'ovl_do_getxattr':
>> fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:187:25: error: initialization of 'struct ovl_inode *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct inode *' [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
187 | struct ovl_inode *ip = d_inode(dentry);
| ^~~~~~~
>> fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:189:32: error: passing argument 2 of '__vfs_getxattr' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
189 | return __vfs_getxattr(dentry, ip, name, value, size, XATTR_NOSECURITY);
| ^~
| |
| struct ovl_inode *
In file included from fs/overlayfs/super.c:10:
include/linux/xattr.h:50:61: note: expected 'struct inode *' but argument is of type 'struct ovl_inode *'
50 | ssize_t __vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

vim +187 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h

181
182 static inline ssize_t ovl_do_getxattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *dentry,
183 enum ovl_xattr ox, void *value,
184 size_t size)
185 {
186 const char *name = ovl_xattr(ofs, ox);
> 187 struct ovl_inode *ip = d_inode(dentry);
188
> 189 return __vfs_getxattr(dentry, ip, name, value, size, XATTR_NOSECURITY);
190 }
191

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