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* [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
@ 2016-08-26 15:42 Arnd Bergmann
  2016-08-26 15:47 ` Rik van Riel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2016-08-26 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul E . McKenney
  Cc: Kees Cook, Steven Rostedt, Rik van Riel, Arnd Bergmann,
	linux-kernel

The CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST option is normally meant for kernel developers
rather than production machines and is guarded by CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.

In contrast, the newly added CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION is meant
for security hardening and may be used on systems that intentionally
do not enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. In this configuration, we get
a warning from Kconfig about the mismatched dependencies:

warning: (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) selects DEBUG_LIST which has unmet direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL)

This annotates the DEBUG_LIST option to be selectable by
BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION when DEBUG_KERNEL is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 40cd725cfc7f ("bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption")
---
 lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6f5ca0530e47..dd40d4ad9063 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
 
 config DEBUG_LIST
 	bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
-	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
 	help
 	  Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list
 	  walking routines.
-- 
2.9.0

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* Re: [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
  2016-08-26 15:42 [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION Arnd Bergmann
@ 2016-08-26 15:47 ` Rik van Riel
  2016-08-26 16:08   ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rik van Riel @ 2016-08-26 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnd Bergmann, Paul E . McKenney; +Cc: Kees Cook, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 17:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST option is normally meant for kernel developers
> rather than production machines and is guarded by
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
> 
> In contrast, the newly added CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION is meant
> for security hardening and may be used on systems that intentionally
> do not enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. In this configuration, we get
> a warning from Kconfig about the mismatched dependencies:
> 
> warning: (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) selects DEBUG_LIST which has unmet
> direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL)
> 
> This annotates the DEBUG_LIST option to be selectable by
> BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION when DEBUG_KERNEL is disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 40cd725cfc7f ("bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data
> corruption")
> 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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* Re: [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION
  2016-08-26 15:47 ` Rik van Riel
@ 2016-08-26 16:08   ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2016-08-26 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rik van Riel; +Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Kees Cook, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:47:03AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 17:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST option is normally meant for kernel developers
> > rather than production machines and is guarded by
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
> > 
> > In contrast, the newly added CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION is meant
> > for security hardening and may be used on systems that intentionally
> > do not enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. In this configuration, we get
> > a warning from Kconfig about the mismatched dependencies:
> > 
> > warning: (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) selects DEBUG_LIST which has unmet
> > direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL)
> > 
> > This annotates the DEBUG_LIST option to be selectable by
> > BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION when DEBUG_KERNEL is disabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Fixes: 40cd725cfc7f ("bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data
> > corruption")
> > 
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Queued for further review and testing, thank you both!

I expect to push this into the upcoming merge window, given that it
fixes a bug in my current stack of commits.

							Thanx, Paul

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