linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: fix building without printk

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Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:28:59 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: fix building without printk

On (11/13/17 17:50), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building kallsyms fails without CONFIG_PRINTK due to a missing
> declaration:
> 
> kernel/kallsyms.c: In function 'kallsyms_show_value':
> kernel/kallsyms.c:670:10: error: 'kptr_restrict' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'keyring_restrict'?
> 
> This moves the declaration outside of the #ifdef guard, the definition
> is already available without CONFIG_PRINTK.
>
> Fixes: c0f3ea158939 ("stop using '%pK' for /proc/kallsyms pointer values")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

ah, I see what happened. was confused at first, because we
do !PRINTK build tests.

FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

thanks.

	-ss

> ---
>  include/linux/printk.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
> index fbb75cac9028..e9b603ee9953 100644
> --- a/include/linux/printk.h
> +++ b/include/linux/printk.h
> @@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
>  
>  extern int printk_delay_msec;
>  extern int dmesg_restrict;
> -extern int kptr_restrict;
>  
>  extern int
>  devkmsg_sysctl_set_loglvl(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf,
> @@ -278,6 +277,8 @@ static inline void printk_safe_flush_on_panic(void)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +extern int kptr_restrict;
> +
>  extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
>  
>  #ifndef pr_fmt
> -- 
> 2.9.0
>