Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: Make DEBUG_WX depdendent on GENERIC_PTDUMP

From: Steven Price
Date: Thu Feb 13 2025 - 06:26:27 EST


On 13/02/2025 04:09, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> DEBUG_WX selects PTDUMP_CORE without even ensuring that the given platform
> implements GENERIC_PTDUMP. This problem has been latent until now, as all
> the platforms subscribing ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX also subscribe GENERIC_PTDUMP.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/Kconfig.debug | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
> index 41a58536531d..a51a1149909a 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
> config DEBUG_WX
> bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
> depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
> + depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
> depends on MMU
> select PTDUMP_CORE
> help