From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753752AbeDTSD4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:03:56 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-f172.google.com ([209.85.216.172]:33193 "EHLO mail-qt0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753726AbeDTSDz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:03:55 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4+GZzKUqezIxUtBCcp163MtYuaOykAPPP0In9PIoCeQg7iTKsw08+dmUTGikbWmNCkrgSLuO3N7DZypZGvO2zc= MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Jeffrin Thalakkottoor Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 23:33:53 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: PROBLEM: error due to conflicting types during build of kselftests To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.home.local id w3KI41O8011656 hello, the following is the error found... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- protection_keys.c:421:5: error: conflicting types for ‘pkey_set’ int pkey_set(int pkey, unsigned long rights, unsigned long flags) ^~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ to reproduce this error... make -C tools/testing/selftests Details about software: Linux debian 4.17.0-rc1+ #1 SMP Thu Apr 19 18:59:45 IST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux GNU Make 4.2.1 Binutils 2.30 Util-linux 2.31.1 Mount 2.31.1 Linux C Library 2.27 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.27 readlink: missing operand Try 'readlink --help' for more information. Procps 3.3.14 Kbd 2.0.4 Console-tools 2.0.4 Sh-utils 8.28 Udev 238 -- software engineer rajagiri school of engineering and technology