Re: [REGRESSION PATCH] NFS: let NFS_V4 and NFSD_V4 enforce CRYPTO

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Aug 30 2010 - 08:11:22 EST


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:36:59PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:26:18 +0200
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [extending Cc: to contain Neil and linux-nfs]
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 08:11:39AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:05:19AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>
> I would tend to wait more than 2 days between pings..

ukl@octopus:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git rev-parse linus/master
2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c
ukl@octopus:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git grep -E CRYPTO= linus/master arch/arm/configs/ | wc -l
6
ukl@octopus:~/gsrc/linux-2.6$ git grep -E NFSD?_V4 linus/master arch/arm/configs/ | wc -l
37

So I think that at least 31 arm-defconfigs don't build because of this
issue. And as this kind of error greatly hurts automatic bisection I
thought this to be critical enough to be a bit impatient.

> > > > This is a follow up to
> > > >
> > > > df486a2 (NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig)
> > > >
> > > > which broke (among others) arm/mx1_defconfig.
> > > >
> > > > Moreover let NFS_V4 select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 again as it was before
> > > > df486a2. This make the dependency more explicit than relying on the no
> > > > prompt + default y if !(NFS_V4 || NFSD_V4).
>
> Maybe if you said a little bit about how it broke?
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
fs/built-in.o: In function `nfs_callback_authenticate':
compr_zlib.c:(.text+0x7c040): undefined reference to `svc_gss_principal'
make[2]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I can add this to the commit log.

> And I'm not sure of the point of the "recursive dependency" comment below...
I added this because if kconfig were a bit smarter it would select
CRYPTO, too, if asked to select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5. On the
linux-arm-kernel ML Catalin Marinas already thought about making kconfig
smarter and so I wanted to mark the symbol.

> I don't fully understand all the issues behind choosing between 'depends' and
> 'select' (why isn't is 'selects' I wonder - that would be more consistent...)
I think it's an imperative, not a normal present tense?! And note this
is different. Here it's not depend vs. select but select vs.

config SOMESYMBOL
prompt "sometext" if !(NFS_V4 || NFSD_V4)
default y

So a dependency for NFS_V4 is hidden in net/sunrpc/Kconfig.

> But that patch seems to make sense to me.
Thanks, that's an Ack?

Best regards
Uwe

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