From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Rothwell Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 16:25:11 +1000 Message-ID: <20170801162511.39fa58ad@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton , Kees Cook Cc: Linux-Next Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this: In file included from arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h:19:0, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h:42, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h:11, from include/linux/irqflags.h:15, from include/linux/spinlock.h:53, from include/linux/wait.h:8, from include/linux/wait_bit.h:7, from include/linux/fs.h:5, from include/linux/buffer_head.h:11, from fs/adfs/dir_f.c:12: In function 'memcpy', inlined from '__adfs_dir_put' at fs/adfs/dir_f.c:318:2, inlined from 'adfs_f_update' at fs/adfs/dir_f.c:403:2: include/linux/string.h:305:4: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter __read_overflow2(); ^ I don't know why this has turned up now. I have just left it broken for now and would appreciate any fix. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell