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From: Brian Mak <makb@juniper.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>,
	Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy@intel.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: unhide get_dump_page() function
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:42:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6EA7241F-A4B0-400C-B338-C375512727B5@juniper.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250224151225.3637934-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Feb 24, 2025, at 7:12 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:

> The definition of get_dump_page() is guarded by CONFIG_ELF_CORE, but
> the caller has now moved into a function that is built based on
> CONFIG_COREDUMP, which leads to a possible link failure:
> 
> ld.lld-21: error: undefined symbol: get_dump_page
>>>> referenced by coredump.c
>>>>              fs/coredump.o:(dump_vma_snapshot) in archive vmlinux.a

Kernel test robot reported this issue yesterday here:
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502231914.ROOVWMZN-lkp@intel.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502231818.fP8cuxmf-lkp@intel.com/

> Change the #ifdef block around the definition to match the caller.
> In practice there is very little difference, as setting COREDUMP
> but not ELF_CORE is not useful.

Good catch! I wonder if we should guard the sparse dump size calculation
logic from the get_dump_page() caller behind CONFIG_ELF_CORE instead
though. I guess the question becomes, will we ever have a non-ELF core
dump format that won't skip zero pages?

Anyway, I'm fine with this fix as-is.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-24 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-24 15:12 Arnd Bergmann
2025-02-24 18:40 ` Kees Cook
2025-02-24 18:42 ` Brian Mak [this message]
2025-02-24 19:06   ` Arnd Bergmann

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