linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/5] uapi: fix remaining kconfig leaks in UAPI headers

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Message-Id: <20251230-headers_install-config-leak-v1-0-efba5c58073d@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:10:55 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...nel.org>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, 
 Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 
 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, 
 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] uapi: fix remaining kconfig leaks in UAPI headers

A few UAPI headers still contained references to kconfig symbols.
Clean them all up and afterwards remove the now useless exception
machinery in headers_install.sh.

Intended to be routed through the kbuild tree.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
---
Thomas Weißschuh (5):
      ARC: uapi: Stop leaking CONFIG_ARC_HAS_SWAPE reference to userspace
      ARM: uapi: Stop leaking CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 reference to userspace
      nios2: uapi: Stop leaking CONFIG_NIOS2_CI_SWAB_{NO,SUPPORT} references to userspace
      x86/uapi: Stop leaking kconfig references to userspace
      scripts: headers_install.sh: Remove config leak ignore machinery

 arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/swab.h   |  2 +-
 arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h |  2 +-
 arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/swab.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/auxvec.h |  2 +-
 scripts/headers_install.sh         | 30 ++----------------------------
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8
change-id: 20251229-headers_install-config-leak-b8a9219d8b3c

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>