ppc64 sys_ipc breakage in 2.6.34-rc2

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Tue Mar 23 05:07:14 EST 2010



On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> ipc/syscall.c:17: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_ipc’
> include/linux/syscalls.h:691: note: previous declaration of ‘sys_ipc’ was here

Hmm. Right you are. Why don't I see this? (I already applied the patch)

Ahh. Because this only triggers with __ARCH_WANT_SYS_IPC. But why didn't 
Anton see it then? 

Anyway, I assume the following fixes it. Can you verify?

		Linus

---
 include/linux/syscalls.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index f994ae5..057929b 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg);
 asmlinkage long sys_shmget(key_t key, size_t size, int flag);
 asmlinkage long sys_shmdt(char __user *shmaddr);
 asmlinkage long sys_shmctl(int shmid, int cmd, struct shmid_ds __user *buf);
-asmlinkage long sys_ipc(unsigned int call, int first, int second,
+asmlinkage long sys_ipc(unsigned int call, int first, unsigned long second,
 		unsigned long third, void __user *ptr, long fifth);
 
 asmlinkage long sys_mq_open(const char __user *name, int oflag, mode_t mode, struct mq_attr __user *attr);


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