From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] net: bpfilter: use 'userprogs' syntax to build bpfilter_umh
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:57:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200630085705.txwn62zixvxxs7rt@lion.mk-sys.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNARGKCyWbfWUOX3nLLOBS3gi1QU3acdXLPVK4C+ErMDLpA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 03:30:04PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:56 PM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed that this patch (now in mainline as commit 8a2cc0505cc4)
> > drops the test if CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH is "y" so that -static is now
> > passed to the linker even if bpfilter_umh is built as a module which
> > wasn't the case in v5.7.
> >
> > This is not mentioned in the commit message and the comment still says
> > "*builtin* bpfilter_umh should be linked with -static" so this change
> > doesn't seem to be intentional. Did I miss something?
>
> I was away for a while from this because I saw long discussion in
> "net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmaintained"
>
>
> Please let me resume this topic now.
>
>
> The original behavior of linking umh was like this:
> - If CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=y, bpfilter_umh was linked with -static
> - If CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=m, bpfilter_umh was linked without -static
>
>
>
> Restoring the original behavior will add more complexity because
> now we have CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK and CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
> since commit b1183b6dca3e0d5
>
> If CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=y, we need to check CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC.
> If CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=m, we need to check CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK.
> This would make the Kconfig dependency logic too complicated.
>
>
> To make it simpler, I'd like to suggest two options.
>
>
>
> Idea 1:
>
> Always use -static irrespective of whether
> CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH is y or m.
>
> Add two more lines to clarify this
> in the comment in net/bpfilter/Makefile:
>
> # builtin bpfilter_umh should be linked with -static
> # since rootfs isn't mounted at the time of __init
> # function is called and do_execv won't find elf interpreter.
> # Static linking is not required when bpfilter is modular, but
> # we always pass -static to keep the 'depends on' in Kconfig simple.
I wouldn't be very happy with this solution as that would mean adding an
extra build dependency which we don't really need. We might even
consider disabling CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH instead.
> Idea 2:
>
> Allow umh to become only modular,
> and drop -static flag entirely.
>
> If you look at net/bpfilter/Kconfig,
> BPFILTER_UMH already has 'default m'.
> So, I assume the most expected use-case
> is modular.
>
> My suggestion is to replace 'default m' with 'depends on m'.
>
> config BPFILTER_UMH
> tristate "bpfilter kernel module with user mode helper"
> depends on CC_CAN_LINK
> depends on m
>
> Then BPFILTER_UMH will be restricted to either m or n.
> Link umh dynamically because we can expect rootfs
> is already mounted for the module case.
This wouldn't be a problem for me or openSUSE kernels as we already have
CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=m. But I can't speak for others, I'm not sure if
there are some use cases requiring CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH=y.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-30 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-23 7:39 [PATCH 00/16] kbuild: support 'userprogs' syntax Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 01/16] Documentation: kbuild: fix the section title format Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 02/16] Revert "objtool: Skip samples subdirectory" Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-24 20:32 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-29 2:43 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 03/16] kbuild: add infrastructure to build userspace programs Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 15:15 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 04/16] net: bpfilter: use 'userprogs' syntax to build bpfilter_umh Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-28 1:46 ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-28 5:13 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-08 11:56 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-06-08 13:32 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-30 6:30 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-30 8:57 ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2020-06-30 16:47 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 05/16] samples: seccomp: build sample programs for target architecture Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 06/16] kbuild: doc: document the new syntax 'userprogs' Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 07/16] samples: uhid: fix warnings in uhid-example Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 08/16] samples: uhid: build sample program for target architecture Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 09/16] samples: hidraw: " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 10/16] samples: connector: " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 11/16] samples: vfs: build sample programs " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 12/16] samples: pidfd: build sample program " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 13/16] samples: mei: " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 14/16] samples: auxdisplay: use 'userprogs' syntax Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 11:50 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-04-24 2:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 15/16] samples: timers: " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-23 7:39 ` [PATCH 16/16] samples: watchdog: " Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-25 11:53 ` [PATCH 00/16] kbuild: support " Sam Ravnborg
2020-04-29 2:38 ` Masahiro Yamada
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