Re: [PATCH 1/2] kallsyms: fix building without printk

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Nov 13 2017 - 20:29:11 EST


On (11/13/17 17:50), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building kallsyms fails without CONFIG_PRINTK due to a missing
> declaration:
>
> kernel/kallsyms.c: In function 'kallsyms_show_value':
> kernel/kallsyms.c:670:10: error: 'kptr_restrict' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'keyring_restrict'?
>
> This moves the declaration outside of the #ifdef guard, the definition
> is already available without CONFIG_PRINTK.
>
> Fixes: c0f3ea158939 ("stop using '%pK' for /proc/kallsyms pointer values")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

ah, I see what happened. was confused at first, because we
do !PRINTK build tests.

FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

thanks.

-ss

> ---
> include/linux/printk.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h
> index fbb75cac9028..e9b603ee9953 100644
> --- a/include/linux/printk.h
> +++ b/include/linux/printk.h
> @@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
>
> extern int printk_delay_msec;
> extern int dmesg_restrict;
> -extern int kptr_restrict;
>
> extern int
> devkmsg_sysctl_set_loglvl(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf,
> @@ -278,6 +277,8 @@ static inline void printk_safe_flush_on_panic(void)
> }
> #endif
>
> +extern int kptr_restrict;
> +
> extern asmlinkage void dump_stack(void) __cold;
>
> #ifndef pr_fmt
> --
> 2.9.0
>