Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/121] 5.7.13-rc2 review

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Aug 05 2020 - 13:47:58 EST


On 2020-08-05 10:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 10:23:06PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 2020-08-04 19:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:21 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > So Linus's tree is also broken here.
>
> No, there's 835d1c3a9879 ("arm64: Drop unnecessary include from
> asm/smp.h") upstream.

My bet is that Greg ended up with this patch backported to
5.7, but doesn't have 62a679cb2825 ("arm64: simplify ptrauth
initialization") as the latter isn't a fix.

I don't think any of these two patches are worth backporting,
to be honest.

I didn't have either of those patches, so I can try applying them to see
if the build errors go away. But if you don't think they should be
applied, what should I do?

Here's what I did have queued up:

f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity")
aa54ea903abb ("ARM: percpu.h: fix build error")
1c9df907da83 ("random: fix circular include dependency on arm64 after
addition of percpu.h")
83bdc7275e62 ("random32: remove net_rand_state from the latent entropy
gcc plugin")
c0842fbc1b18 ("random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to
prandom.h")

Not what I expected, then. I stand corrected.

And that caused the builds to blow up.

So, what should I do here?

OK, this is getting hairy. I solved it by grabbing:

d0055da5266a ("arm64: remove ptrauth_keys_install_kernel sync arg")
62a679cb2825 ("arm64: simplify ptrauth initialization")

and at which point you might as well take 835d1c3a9879 despite
everything I said earlier. And backporting that further down the
line is fraught with danger.

I came up with yet another "quality" hack, which gets the job done,
see below. It is obviously much simpler, but also terribly ugly.

M.

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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 12:10:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Workaround circular dependency in pointer_auth.h
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With the backport of f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random
state on interrupt and activity") and its associated fixes, the
arm64 build explodes early:

In file included from ../include/linux/smp.h:67,
from ../include/linux/percpu.h:7,
from ../include/linux/prandom.h:12,
from ../include/linux/random.h:118,
from ../arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h:6,
from ../arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:39,
from ../include/linux/mutex.h:19,
from ../include/linux/kernfs.h:12,
from ../include/linux/sysfs.h:16,
from ../include/linux/kobject.h:20,
from ../include/linux/of.h:17,
from ../include/linux/irqdomain.h:35,
from ../include/linux/acpi.h:13,
from ../include/acpi/apei.h:9,
from ../include/acpi/ghes.h:5,
from ../include/linux/arm_sdei.h:8,
from ../arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
../arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h:100:29: error: field ‘ptrauth_key’ has
incomplete type

This is due to struct ptrauth_keys_kernel not being defined before
we transitively include asm/smp.h from linux/random.h.

Paper over it by moving the inclusion of linux/random.h *after* the
type has been defined.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
index c6b4f0603024..be7f853738e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
#define __ASM_POINTER_AUTH_H

#include <linux/bitops.h>
-#include <linux/random.h>

#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/memory.h>
@@ -34,6 +33,13 @@ struct ptrauth_keys_kernel {
struct ptrauth_key apia;
};

+/*
+ * Only include random.h once ptrauth_keys_* structures are defined
+ * to avoid yet another circular include hell (random.h * ends up
+ * including asm/smp.h, which requires ptrauth_keys_kernel).
+ */
+#include <linux/random.h>
+
static inline void ptrauth_keys_init_user(struct ptrauth_keys_user *keys)
{
if (system_supports_address_auth()) {
--
2.27.0


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