linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] elfcore: um: Fix CONFIG

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdk2tj0bzTajd6F4bPvwXComJSnS+8Jwj3t7EEP5gGoK+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:57:56 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elfcore: um: Fix CONFIG_UM typo in linux/elfcore.h

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 11:11 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
>
> There is no CONFIG_UM, only UML. In addition, the arch/x86/um/elfcore.c
> file is only compiled if CONFIG_X86_32. Fix the #if conditions in the
> linux/elfcore.h header accordingly.
>
> Fixes: 6e7b64b9dd6d ("elfcore: fix building with clang")
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Lukas noticed and sent a patch coincidentally just before you:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211006082209.417-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/

Let me cc' you and Arnd into that thread.

> ---
>
> I'm doing some arm64 changes to allow MTE tags to be dumped in the core
> file and I came across this. In a subsequent patch I'll change the #if
> check with a dedicated Kconfig option but I thought I'd send the fix
> first in case anyone deems it important to backport.
>
>  include/linux/elfcore.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/elfcore.h b/include/linux/elfcore.h
> index 2aaa15779d50..957ebec35aad 100644
> --- a/include/linux/elfcore.h
> +++ b/include/linux/elfcore.h
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline int elf_core_copy_task_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, struct pt_reg
>  #endif
>  }
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_UM) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> +#if (defined(CONFIG_UML) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
>  /*
>   * These functions parameterize elf_core_dump in fs/binfmt_elf.c to write out
>   * extra segments containing the gate DSO contents.  Dumping its



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers