[PATCH 2/2] Platform integrity information in sysfs (version 9)

[Daniel Gutson]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:01 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/30/20 9:37 AM, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/Kconfig
> > index 5c0e0ec2e6d1..e7eaef506fc2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/controllers/Kconfig
> > @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config SPI_NXP_SPIFI
> >
> >  config SPI_INTEL_SPI
> >       tristate
> > +     depends on PLATFORM_INTEGRITY_DATA
>
> So SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI selects SPI_INTEL_SPI:
>
> config SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI
>         tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash PCI driver (DANGEROUS)"
>         depends on X86 && PCI
>         select SPI_INTEL_SPI
>
> without checking that PLATFORM_INTEGRITY_DATA is set/enabled.
>
> "select" does not follow any kconfig dependency chains, so when
> PLATFORM_INTEGRITY_DATA is not enabled, this should be causing
> a kconfig warning, which is not OK.

Since now SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI can be enabled without PLATFORM_INTEGRITY_DATA
(thanks to the #ifdefs), I think I'll just remove the 'depends' and
will leave this as it was.

>
>
> --
> ~Randy
>


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Daniel Gutson
Engineering Director
Eclypsium, Inc.


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