Re: [PATCH] fs: fix sysctls.c built

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 05:20:08 EST


On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:14:44PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> /proc/sys/fs/overflowuid and overflowgid will be lost without
> building this file, kindly ping, any comments, thanks.
>
>
> On 2023/3/31 16:45, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > 'obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += sysctls.o' must be moved after "obj-y :=",
> > or it won't be built as it is overwrited.
> >
> > Fixes: ab171b952c6e ("fs: move namespace sysctls and declare fs base directory")
> > Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/Makefile | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
> > index 05f89b5c962f..8d4736fcc766 100644
> > --- a/fs/Makefile
> > +++ b/fs/Makefile
> > @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
> > # Rewritten to use lists instead of if-statements.
> > #
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += sysctls.o
> > obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \
> > char_dev.o stat.o exec.o pipe.o namei.o fcntl.o \
> > @@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE) += mbcache.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL) += posix_acl.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_NFS_COMMON) += nfs_common/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_COREDUMP) += coredump.o
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += drop_caches.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += drop_caches.o sysctls.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_FHANDLE) += fhandle.o
> > obj-y += iomap/

Given the description in
ab171b952c6e ("fs: move namespace sysctls and declare fs base directory")
you probably want to move this earlier.