Re: [PATCH -next] cred: conditionally declare groups-related functions

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 06/21/2018 01:33 AM, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> The groups-related functions declared in include/linux/cred.h are
> defined in kernel/groups.c, which is compiled only when
> CONFIG_MULTIUSER=y. Move all these function declarations under #ifdef
> CONFIG_MULTIUSER to help avoid accidental usage in contexts where
> CONFIG_MULTIUSER might be disabled.
> 
> This patch also adds a fallback for groups_search(). Currently this
> function is only called from kernel/groups.c itself and
> keys/permissions.c, which depends on CONFIG_MULTIUSER. However, the
> audit subsystem (which does not depend on CONFIG_MULTIUSER) calls this
> function in -next, so the fallback will be needed to avoid compilation
> errors or ugly workarounds.
> 
> See also:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/20/670
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit.git/commit/?h=next&id=af85d1772e31fed34165a1b3decef340cf4080c0
> 
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  include/linux/cred.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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~Randy