Re: [PATCH] rv: Fix boot failure when kernel lockdown is active

[Gabriele Monaco]

On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 11:48 +0200, Tomas Glozar wrote:
> čt 18. 9. 2025 v 10:36 odesílatel Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx> napsal:
> > 
> > Yeah totally, I have the feeling that with the kernel there's no such a
> > thing as a "theoretical bug", kinda like a good consequence of Murphy's
> > Law.
> 
> My understanding of "theoretical bug" is that it's code that is
> semantically equivalent to a bug-free code, but becomes buggy after
> doing an "innocent" change. The bug might be more or less
> "theoretical" based on how "innocent" that change is. Of course, in a
> codebase of the size of a Linux kernel, this tends to happen quite
> often, and is not always possible to get rid of completely...

Yeah good point, we are getting philosophical here :) . This wasn't a
theoretical bug then, just something you don't think will really happen (a
failure creating a sysfs directory) ... until it happens.

The fact there is a way to make that function fail on-demand (kernel lockdown),
makes it just more "real". Moral of the story, better get the compiler check
things for you (lock guards).

Anyway the fix is now upstream.

Gabriele