Re: [PATCH net] net/smc: Fix dependency of SMC on ISM

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 10/6/23 05:58, Gerd Bayer wrote:
> When the SMC protocol is built into the kernel proper while ISM is
> configured to be built as module, linking the kernel fails due to
> unresolved dependencies out of net/smc/smc_ism.o to
> ism_get_smcd_ops, ism_register_client, and ism_unregister_client
> as reported via the linux-next test automation (see link).
> This however is a bug introduced a while ago.
> 
> Correct the dependency list in ISM's and SMC's Kconfig to reflect the
> dependencies that are actually inverted. With this you cannot build a
> kernel with CONFIG_SMC=y and CONFIG_ISM=m. Either ISM needs to be 'y',
> too - or a 'n'. That way, SMC can still be configured on non-s390
> architectures that do not have (nor need) an ISM driver.
> 
> Fixes: 89e7d2ba61b7 ("net/ism: Add new API for client registration")
> 
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/d53b5b50-d894-4df8-8969-fd39e63440ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Co-developed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Works for me. Thanks.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> # build-tested


> ---
>  drivers/s390/net/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  net/smc/Kconfig          | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/Kconfig b/drivers/s390/net/Kconfig
> index 74760c1a163b..4902d45e929c 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/Kconfig
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config CCWGROUP
>  
>  config ISM
>  	tristate "Support for ISM vPCI Adapter"
> -	depends on PCI && SMC
> +	depends on PCI
>  	default n
>  	help
>  	  Select this option if you want to use the Internal Shared Memory
> diff --git a/net/smc/Kconfig b/net/smc/Kconfig
> index 1ab3c5a2c5ad..746be3996768 100644
> --- a/net/smc/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/smc/Kconfig
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  config SMC
>  	tristate "SMC socket protocol family"
>  	depends on INET && INFINIBAND
> +	depends on m || ISM != m
>  	help
>  	  SMC-R provides a "sockets over RDMA" solution making use of
>  	  RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology to upgrade

-- 
~Randy