Re: [PATCH 5.7 0/6] 5.7.14-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 8/5/20 11:37 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:24 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Same with older versions of gcc. I don't see the problem with the
>> mainline kernel.
> 
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU
> 
>> I think this is caused by more recursive includes.
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/archrandom.h includes include/linux/random.h
>> which includes arch/arm64/include/asm/archrandom.h to get the definition
>> of arch_get_random_seed_long_early (which it won't get because of
>> the recursion).
>>
>> What I don't really understand is how this works with new versions
>> of gcc.
> 
> Is that the only place it triggers?
> 
> Because the trivial fix would be something like the appended, which is
> the right thing to do anyway.
> 

Correct.

gcc-7.x and older don't support CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH. Result is that
./arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h doesn't include <linux/random.h>
for those compiler versions, which results in the problem.

In the mainline kernel, ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pointer_auth.h
always includes <linux/random.h>, so the problem isn't seen (or, rather,
it is hidden) there.

The problem is caused (exposed) by Marc's commit ("arm64: Workaround
circular dependency in pointer_auth.h"), which makes the include of
linux/random.h conditional.

Guenter

>               Linus
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> index 07c4c8cc4a67..9ded4237e1c1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kaslr.c
> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  #include <linux/pgtable.h>
> +#include <linux/random.h>
> 
> -#include <asm/archrandom.h>
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/fixmap.h>
>  #include <asm/kernel-pgtable.h>
>