On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, David Howells wrote:

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> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > As expected (reported by David Fries), today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > In file included from include/linux/tracehook.h:52,
> >                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c:13:
> > include/linux/security.h: In function 'security_ptrace_traceme':
> > include/linux/security.h:1760: error: 'parent' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > 
> > Caused by commit 5cd9c58fbe9ec92b45b27e131719af4f2bd9eb40 ("security: Fix
> > setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()").  The version of this commit
> > that has been in the linux-next tree from Aug 8 to Aug 15 is correct, so
> > I have no idea what happened.
> 
> I accidentally posted an old patch which James, maybe, substituted for the
> good one that he had.

I took the patch you sent me, although after some IRC discussion, what 
should have happened is that I should have git-cherry-pick'd the patch 
from the next-creds branch (where it had been tested in linux-next for 
some time) into for-linus rather than asking for an updated patch.

Sorry folks.


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
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