linux-kernel - Re: GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4F6CFDBF.9060404@xenotime.net>
Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:48:31 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
CC:	David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window)

On 03/23/2012 03:06 PM, Benjamin Poirier wrote:

> On 2012/03/23 16:18, David Teigland wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> GFS2_FS selects DLM (if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM, which is enabled).
>>>>> GFS2_FS selects IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP, which is not enabled and not
>>>>> used anywhere else in the kernel tree AFAICT.
>>>>> DLM just always selects IP_SCTP.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what we have now:
>>>>
>>>> config GFS2_FS
>>>>         tristate "GFS2 file system support"
>>>>         depends on (64BIT || LBDAF)
>>>>         select DLM if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>>         select CONFIGFS_FS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>>         select SYSFS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>>>>         select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
>>>>         select FS_POSIX_ACL
>>>>         select CRC32
>>>>         select QUOTACTL
>>>>
>>>> menuconfig DLM
>>>>         tristate "Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)"
>>>>         depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET
>>>>         depends on SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
>>>>         select IP_SCTP
>>>>
>>>> Why does gfs2 Kconfig bother with SCTP at all?  It seems that line should
>>>> just be removed.  I'll also remove EXPERIMENTAL.  I don't understand the
>>>> vagaries of Kconfig, so a dumb question, how could sctp_do_peeloff
>>>> possibly be undefined if we're selecting SCTP.
>>>
>>> What is selecting SCTP?  DLM?  so GFS2 selects DLM, but selects
>>> don't follow dependency chains.  Also, the "select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP"
>>> in GFS2 is meaningless since there is no DLM_SCTP.
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/222 seems to have caused this by adding
>> the new dependency on the sctp module without any Kconfig changes.
>>
>> Should that patch have added depends IP_SCTP to the dlm and gfs2?
>>
> 
> Instead of trying to select everything in GFS2, how about doing it this way?
> 
> [PATCH] gfs2: use depends instead of select in kconfig
> 
> Avoids having to duplicate the dependencies of what is 'select'ed (and on
> down...)
> 
> Those dependencies are currently incomplete, leading to broken builds with
> GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM=y and IP_SCTP=n.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>


That seems to work for me.  Thanks.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>


> ---
>  fs/gfs2/Kconfig |    7 ++-----
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/Kconfig b/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> index c465ae0..eb08c9e 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/Kconfig
> @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
>  config GFS2_FS
>  	tristate "GFS2 file system support"
>  	depends on (64BIT || LBDAF)
> -	select DLM if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> -	select CONFIGFS_FS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> -	select SYSFS if GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
> -	select IP_SCTP if DLM_SCTP
>  	select FS_POSIX_ACL
>  	select CRC32
>  	select QUOTACTL
> @@ -29,7 +25,8 @@ config GFS2_FS
>  
>  config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM
>  	bool "GFS2 DLM locking"
> -	depends on (GFS2_FS!=n) && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && HOTPLUG
> +	depends on (GFS2_FS!=n) && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && \
> +		HOTPLUG && DLM && CONFIGFS_FS && SYSFS
>  	help
>  	  Multiple node locking module for GFS2
>  



-- 
~Randy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/