ACK: [SRU][Xenial][PATCH 0/1] Fix for ext2 build failure

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Mon May 25 11:26:20 UTC 2020


On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:05:15PM -0500, Ian May wrote:
> Currently, xenial/linux-snapdragon has CONFIG_EXT2_FS enabled and is
> failing to build due to this build error in Ext2.  I was advised to also
> submit the upstream patch for the Xenial SRU.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian

Okay, it would be nice to explain that in the bug Impact, I'd say. Thanks for
the explanation.

Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>

> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:12 PM Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <
> cascardo at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Ian May wrote:
> > > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1880213
> > >
> > > [Impact]
> > > Build failure when building ext2
> > >
> > > fs/ext2/xattr.c:828:18: error: 'ext2_xattr_cache' undeclared (first use
> > in this function)
> > >      atomic_read(&ext2_xattr_cache->c_entry_count));
> > >
> > > [Fix]
> > > The fix is upstream commit 32302085a8d90859c40cf1a5e8313f575d06ec75
> > "ext2: fix debug reference to ext2_xattr_cache"
> > >
> > > [Test case]
> > > Enable CONFIG_EXT2_FS and build kernel
> > >
> >
> > What is the motivation behind this?
> >
> > Cascardo.
> >
> > > [Regression potential]
> > > Low, fix is changing the contents of a print to a string literal.
> > >
> > > Jan Kara (1):
> > >   ext2: fix debug reference to ext2_xattr_cache
> > >
> > >  fs/ext2/xattr.c | 3 +--
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> > >
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> >



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