[PATCH] entry: Guard syscall_enter_audit() invocation with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Sat Sep 05 2026 - 04:44:08 EST


A bunch of older cross compilers notably RISCV64 and S390 fail to eliminate
the dead code when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n. The code in question is:

if (unlikely(audit_context())
syscall_enter_audit(regs);

and in case of CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n:

static inline struct audit_context *audit_context(void)
{
return NULL;
}

which should make the compiler eliminate the syscall_enter_audit()
call. But a RISV64 GCC12 cross compiler translates that into:

if (unlikely(audit_context()))
1c34: 00000097 auipc ra,0x0
1c38: 000080e7 jalr ra # 1c34 <.L785>
1c3c: c511 beqz a0,1c48 <.L787>
syscall_enter_audit(regs);
1c3e: 8526 mv a0,s1
1c40: 00000097 auipc ra,0x0
1c44: 000080e7 jalr ra # 1c40 <.L785+0xc>

and then claims in the failing link:

include/asm-generic/preempt.h:54:(.noinstr.text+0x1a20):
undefined reference to 'syscall_enter_audit'

which is obviously hallucination.

Add an explicit IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL) check into the condition to
cure this compiler madness.

Fixes: 6f25517010dd ("entry: Rework syscall_audit_enter()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202609031938.ZvZZaRQy-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
---
include/linux/entry-common.h | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/entry-common.h
+++ b/include/linux/entry-common.h
@@ -102,7 +102,14 @@ static __always_inline long syscall_trac
if (unlikely(work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT))
trace_syscall_enter(regs);

- if (unlikely(audit_context()))
+ /*
+ * The config check works around broken compilers which fail to
+ * eliminate the dead code in case of CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n as they
+ * insist on creating a always false runtime condition based on
+ * audit_context() which returns NULL in that case. The explicit
+ * IS_ENABLED() check makes that madness go away.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL) && unlikely(audit_context()))
syscall_enter_audit(regs);

return true;