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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 29 2023 - 23:44:22 EST


On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 19:59, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After merging the origin tree, today's linux-next build (sparc defconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> /home/sfr/next/next/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c: In function 'force_user_fault':
> /home/sfr/next/next/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c:315:49: error: 'regs' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 315 | vma = lock_mm_and_find_vma(mm, address, regs);

Duh. Yeah, the register window faults don't pass the user register
state pointer around, and as noted in commit a050ba1e7422 those
left-over conversions were mostly done blind.

The fix is trivial - just pass in NULL for the regs pointer. It's not required.

Said fix pushed out. Thanks,

Linus