Re: [PATCH] zcrypt: handle AP Info notification from CHSC SEI command

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Fri Feb 01 2019 - 04:02:11 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 06:28:39PM -0500, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> On 1/30/19 1:32 PM, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> >On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> >>+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZCRYPT)
> >>+void ap_bus_cfg_chg(void);
> >>+#else
> >>+#error "no CONFIG_ZCRYPT"
> > ^
> >I don't think that's the right thing to do here.
>
> I'd like to leave it. If somebody edits .config
> and sets CONFIG_ZCRYPT=n, then the build will
> fail. The preprocessor error above tells them
> why.

No, the kernel build should never fail if a config option is not set.
Also the above should be "#ifdef CONFIG_ZCRYPT".

In addition (this isn't quoted unfortunately) the alternative function
in the header file is missing the "inline" attribute. Can you please
add that too?

static inline void ap_bus_cfg_chg(void) { }

> >>+* A config change has happened, Force an ap bus rescan.
> >>+*/
> >>+void ap_bus_cfg_chg(void)
> >>+{
> >>+ AP_DBF(DBF_INFO, "%s config change, forcing bus rescan\n", __func__);
> >>+
> >>+ ap_bus_force_rescan();
> >>+}
> >>+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ap_bus_cfg_chg);
> >
> >There is no need for the export symbol - you don't call that function
> >from module code.
> >As an unrelated question, just to be sure: ap_bus.c is compiled as
> >built-in even with ZCRYPT=m, right?
>
> No. If you edit .config and set CONFIG_ZCRYPT=m, ap_bus.c will be built
> into the zcrypt.ko module. Through some other magic, the zcrypt module
> is loaded when linux boots.

If that happens, then we have a build problem that needs to be
fixed. What exactly are you doing to get the ap code linked into the
zcrypt module?