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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>,
	Eric Snowberg	 <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>,
	Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman	 <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik	 <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	Paul Moore	 <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn"	 <serge@hallyn.com>, Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot()
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:07:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a985c90d9df8ba0fc63f65117cc8e884f70e6035.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2089740-16d8-4ca4-a61c-8c381f8e30a0@app.fastmail.com>

On Thu, 2026-03-12 at 16:03 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026, at 21:37, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > security/integrity/secure_boot.c contains a single __weak function,
> > which breaks recordmcount when building with clang:
> > 
> >   $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 ppc64_defconfig 
> > security/integrity/secure_boot.o
> >   Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
> >   security/integrity/secure_boot.o: failed
> > 
> > Introduce a Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_GET_SECUREBOOT, to indicate
> > that an architecture provides a definition of arch_get_secureboot().
> > Provide a static inline stub when this symbol is not defined to achieve
> > the same effect as the __weak function, allowing secure_boot.c to be
> > removed altogether. Move the s390 definition of arch_get_secureboot()
> > out of the CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE block to ensure it is always available, as
> > it does not actually depend on KEXEC_FILE.
> > 
> > Fixes: 31a6a07eefeb ("integrity: Make arch_ima_get_secureboot integrity-wide")
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I pushed out the patch to next-integrity, but am a bit concerned about the
definition:

+config HAVE_ARCH_GET_SECUREBOOT
+       def_bool EFI
+

Has anyone actually tested this patch on s390, not just compiled it?  If so, I'd
appreciate a tested-by tag.

thanks,

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-12 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-09 20:37 [PATCH] integrity: Eliminate weak definition of arch_get_secureboot() Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-12 15:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-03-12 16:07   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2026-03-12 20:55     ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-03-13 15:35       ` Mimi Zohar

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