Paul Bolle <pebo...@tiscali.nl> writes: > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 22:05 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Using these functions with offstack cpus is unsafe. They use all NR_CPUS >> bits, unstead of nr_cpumask_bits. >> >> In particular, lustre (in staging) used cpus_ and that caused a bug. >> >> Reported-by: Oleg Drokin <gr...@linuxhacker.ru> >> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> >> --- >> lib/Kconfig | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig >> index 87da53bb1fef..722427805220 100644 >> --- a/lib/Kconfig >> +++ b/lib/Kconfig >> @@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK >> stack overflow. >> >> config DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS >> - bool "Disable obsolete cpumask functions" if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS >> - depends on BROKEN >> + bool >> + depends on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK > > This removes the "prompt" from this symbol's entry. And nothing selects > it either (not in next-20150302 nor in this series). So I think this > just disables this Kconfig symbol entirely. Ie, it can't be set even if > CPUMAK_OFFSTACK is set. > > Should this entry perhaps be using > def_bool y > > instead?
You're right. In practice, I used a different patch to actually force enable it. The final patch deletes it altogether, so I will just squash the two and this will never appear in the final series. Thanks! Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/