Re: [PATCH v2] audit: Force audit_context() to be always inlined

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Jul 21 2026 at 12:01, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> commit 6f25517010dd ("entry: Rework syscall_audit_enter()") relies on
> dead code elimination to remove the call to syscall_enter_audit() when
> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is disabled. However, with s390 GCC 13.4.0 +
> CONFIG_KASAN, audit_context() is not inlined despite being marked
> inline, causing an undefined reference to syscall_enter_audit().
>
> Force audit_context() to be __always_inline to ensure the conditional
> can be constant-folded and dead code elimination works correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202607181530.2nx8zb3J-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

Obsolete. Is already in:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=core/entry&id=6f25517010ddd3f8080d7e06b9b1cb1b64b73772