Re: [PATCH] bug: avoid Kconfig warning for BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:47:03AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 17:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST option is normally meant for kernel developers
> > rather than production machines and is guarded by
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL.
> > 
> > In contrast, the newly added CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION is meant
> > for security hardening and may be used on systems that intentionally
> > do not enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. In this configuration, we get
> > a warning from Kconfig about the mismatched dependencies:
> > 
> > warning: (BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION) selects DEBUG_LIST which has unmet
> > direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL)
> > 
> > This annotates the DEBUG_LIST option to be selectable by
> > BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION when DEBUG_KERNEL is disabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 40cd725cfc7f ("bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data
> > corruption")
> > 
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for further review and testing, thank you both!

I expect to push this into the upcoming merge window, given that it
fixes a bug in my current stack of commits.

							Thanx, Paul