linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:02:05 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
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        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:48:45PM -0800, Bill Wendling wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 12:01 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > In preparation for adding more sysctls directly in kernel/panic.c, split
> > CONFIG_SMP from the logic that adds sysctls.
> >
> > Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@...ontech.com>
> > Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
> > Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
> > Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >  kernel/panic.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> > index da323209f583..129936511380 100644
> > --- a/kernel/panic.c
> > +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> > @@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(panic_notifier_list);
> >
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(panic_notifier_list);
> >
> > -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL)
> > +#if CONFIG_SYSCTL
> 
> Should this be "#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL"?
> 
> >  static struct ctl_table kern_panic_table[] = {
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> 
> nit: This could be "#ifdef CONFIG_SMP"

Whoops, yes. Thanks. I'll fix these for v3.

-- 
Kees Cook