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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>, robh@kernel.org
Cc: kbuild-all@lists.01.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ima: Fix warning: no previous prototype for function 'ima_post_key_create_or_update'
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:24:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6251386feb733d4278e97c3501c09f8dc1a4105.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210610171553.3806-2-nramas@linux.microsoft.com>

Hi Lakshmi,

On Thu, 2021-06-10 at 10:15 -0700, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:
> The function prototype for ima_post_key_create_or_update() is present
> in 'linux/ima.h'.  But this header file is not included in
> ima_asymmetric_keys.c where the function is implemented.  This results
> in the following compiler warning when "-Wmissing-prototypes" flag
> is turned on:
> 
>   security/integrity/ima/ima_asymmetric_keys.c:29:6: warning: no previous
>   prototype for 'ima_post_key_create_or_update' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> 
> Include the header file 'linux/ima.h' in ima_asymmetric_keys.c to
> fix the compiler warning.
> 
> Fixes: 88e70da170e8 (IMA: Define an IMA hook to measure keys)
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>

Roberto posted an equivalent patch "[PATCH 4/5] ima: Include header
defining ima_post_key_create_or_update()" earlier this week.

Compiler warnings don't meet the requirements for stable -
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

thanks,

Mimi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-11  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-10 17:15 [PATCH 1/2] ima: Fix warning: no previous prototype for function 'ima_add_kexec_buffer' Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2021-06-10 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: Fix warning: no previous prototype for function 'ima_post_key_create_or_update' Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2021-06-10 17:36   ` Rob Herring
2021-06-11  1:24   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2021-06-10 17:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] ima: Fix warning: no previous prototype for function 'ima_add_kexec_buffer' Rob Herring
2021-06-11 15:41 ` Mimi Zohar

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