[PATCH 2/5] ARM: uapi: Stop leaking CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 reference to userspace
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Tue Dec 30 06:20:10 PST 2025
On Tue, Dec 30, 2025, at 08:10, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> UAPI headers are not supposed to leak references to kconfig symbols.
> These won't be set when building userspace. Hide the kconfig reference
> behind 'if defined(__KERNEL__)', so it will be stripped by
> headers_install.sh, the same way other kconfig references in this file
> are handled. The result for userspace will be the same, but the
> exception in headers_install.sh can also be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
According to codesearch.debian.net, there are no actual users of
this definition outside of the kernel, and there really shouldn't
be either.
It should be both safe and correct to open-code PSR_ENDSTATE
in the two file where it is used as
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8))
regs->ARM_cpsr |= PSR_E_BIT
and then remove the definition from the header. Alternatively
it could be moved into the non-uapi header, or you can have
an #ifdef around both of them.
Arnd
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