Re: [Linux PPC] 7.0-rc1: e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *'

[Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)]

Le 23/02/2026 à 23:40, Kees Cook a écrit :

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 08:38:29PM +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:

Le 23/02/2026 à 19:07, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) a écrit :

+Kees

Hello,

Le 23/02/2026 à 17:48, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :

Hello,

Compiling issue for e5500 machines for the RC1 of kernel 7.0:

arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c: In function 'kvmppc_e500_tlb_init':
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:923:26: error: assignment to 'struct
tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [-
Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
    923 |  vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
        |                          ^
arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c:928:26: error: assignment to 'struct
tlbe_priv *' from incompatible pointer type 'struct tlbe_ref *' [-
Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
    928 |  vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,

Temporary solution: # CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION is not set

Please solve this issue.

Must be one of:

189f164e573e Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses
bf4afc53b77a Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default
GFP_KERNEL argument
69050f8d6d07 treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar
types

Can you try following change:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
index 48580c85f23b..75ed1496ead5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/e500_mmu.c
@@ -920,12 +920,12 @@ int kvmppc_e500_tlb_init(struct kvmppc_vcpu_e500
*vcpu_e500)
        vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[0] = 0;
        vcpu_e500->gtlb_offset[1] = KVM_E500_TLB0_SIZE;

-       vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
+       vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv,
                                               
vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[0].entries);
        if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[0])
                goto free_vcpu;

-       vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_ref,
+       vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1] = kzalloc_objs(struct tlbe_priv,
                                               
vcpu_e500->gtlb_params[1].entries);
        if (!vcpu_e500->gtlb_priv[1])
                goto free_vcpu;

That looks like the correct fix to me. The old type was the correct size,
but was just the wrong type. Sorry I missed it when doing my tree-wide
multi-arch builds! What build target (or Kconfig) was needed to reach
this code?

I used ppc64e_defconfig + CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION=y
+ CONFIG_KVM_E500MC=y

Fixes: 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar 
types")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org>

Thanks!