On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:46:50AM -0700, Dmitry Shmidt wrote:
> Please add this patch to stable 4.14
>
> commit f54450ad1942287cc76b38021c0441fc4901d2de
> Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Feb 27 13:11:21 2018 -0800
>
> console: Drop added "static" for newport_con
>
> Commit 4fe505119778 ("console: Expand dummy functions for CFI") accidentally
> added "static" to newport_con instance of struct consw, while trying to
> normalize the declarations. This, however, needed to stay non-static as it
> has an extern.
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 4fe505119778 ("console: Expand dummy functions for CFI")
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Why does 4.14.y need it?
It really fixes commit c396a5bf457f ("console: Expand dummy functions
for CFI") which only showed up in 4.17-rc1.
Why would 4.14.y need it?
confused,
greg k-h