[PATCH 5/5] kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Ah yes, I reread your suggestion and that would probably be the best
> course of action, as it does avoid the extra symbol (although I am not
> sure what you mean by one less rename?). As I understand it:
>
>   config CFI_CLANG
>       bool "Use Kernel Control Flow Integrity (kCFI)"
>       depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
>       depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kcfi)
>       help
>         <generic help text>
>
>   config CFI
>       def_bool CFI_CLANG
>
> then keep the rest of the change the same with the rename? I guess the

Yeah, exactly. The name isn't great, though, as you mention, if users
with GCC see it early on.

By one less rename I just meant that we wouldn't have both CFI_GCC and
CFI_CLANG "moved"/"merged" into CFI later on (just 1).

Cheers,
Miguel