Re: [PATCH v2] kernel: Expose SYS_kcmp by default

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Kees Cook (2021-02-05 21:20:33)
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 09:16:01PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > The subject should of course be changed, as it is no longer being
> > enabled by default.
> 
> "default n" is redundant.

I thought being explicit would be preferred. There are a few other
default n, so at least it's not the odd-one-out!

> I thought Daniel said CONFIG_DRM needed to
> "select" it too, though?

Yes. We will need to select it for any DRM driver so that the Vulkan/GL
stacks can rely on having SYS_kcmp. That deserves to be handled and
explain within drm/Kconfig, and as they are already shipping with calls
to SYS_kcmp we may have to ask for a stable backport.

> Otherwise, yeah, this looks good. Was the
> export due to the 0-day bot failure reports?

Yes.
-Chris