** Description changed: [Impact] The following build error is reported when building this module with the new linux-hwe-5.11: dm-writeboost-metadata.c:984:9: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration 984 | struct superblock_record_device uninitialized_var(record); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ dm-writeboost-metadata.c:985:32: error: ‘record’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘record_id’? 985 | err = read_superblock_record(&record, wb); | ^~~~~~ | record_id [Test plan] $ sudo apt install dm-writeboost-dkms Build error in reported in the build log. [Fix] Fix by applying the following upstream commits (from https://github.com/akiradeveloper/dm-writeboost) to properly support the 5.11 kernel: 32fc003 - Fix Linux 5.9 build: remove uninitialized_var() usage d89ea5c - blkdev_issue_flush: discard unused memory allocation flags [Where problems could occur] Potential build breakage with some really old kernels. + + [Other] + + NB! dkms ftbfs fixes must be built in security, such that after SRU + process in -proposed & -updates it can be copied into -security pocket + too.
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