On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 16:41 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Stable commit "core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in > skb_zerocopy and handle errors", upstream commit > 36d5fe6a000790f56039afe26834265db0a3ad4c, was not correctly backported > and missed to change a const 'from' parameter to non-const. This > results in a new batch of warnings: Just FYI, the backport in 3.13-stable[0] -- Ben Hutchings' work -- actually does not exhibit this problem. nfqnl_zcopy() already has the const removed and the file yields no compile warnings. Thanks very much for the heads-up anyway, Jiri! -Kamal [0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2287ffc0e9c3d39cbc4ea9e2312640758201dfc > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c: In function ‘nfqnl_zcopy’: > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c:272:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘skb_orphan_frags’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] > if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(from, GFP_ATOMIC))) { > ^ > In file included from net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c:18:0: > include/linux/skbuff.h:1822:19: note: expected ‘struct sk_buff *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct sk_buff *’ > static inline int skb_orphan_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask) > ^ > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c:273:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘skb_tx_error’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default] > skb_tx_error(from); > ^ > In file included from net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c:18:0: > include/linux/skbuff.h:630:13: note: expected ‘struct sk_buff *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct sk_buff *’ > extern void skb_tx_error(struct sk_buff *skb); > > Remove const from the 'from' parameter, the same as in the upstream > commit. > > As far as I can see, this leaked into 3.10, 3.12, and 3.13 already. > > Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal.mostafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.10, v3.12, v3.13 > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> > --- > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c > index f5c34db24498..8abb522ec322 100644 > --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c > +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ nfqnl_flush(struct nfqnl_instance *queue, nfqnl_cmpfn cmpfn, unsigned long data) > } > > static int > -nfqnl_zcopy(struct sk_buff *to, const struct sk_buff *from, int len, int hlen) > +nfqnl_zcopy(struct sk_buff *to, struct sk_buff *from, int len, int hlen) > { > int i, j = 0; > int plen = 0; /* length of skb->head fragment */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html