tree 6c6ebd4ca25f09ece5d55ce0c186a026b0d37509
parent f40ddce88593482919761f74910f42f4b84c004b
author Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> 1612562412 +0000
committer Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 1613465981 +0100

kcmp: Support selection of SYS_kcmp without CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

Userspace has discovered the functionality offered by SYS_kcmp and has
started to depend upon it. In particular, Mesa uses SYS_kcmp for
os_same_file_description() in order to identify when two fd (e.g. device
or dmabuf) point to the same struct file. Since they depend on it for
core functionality, lift SYS_kcmp out of the non-default
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE into the selectable syscall category.

Rasmus Villemoes also pointed out that systemd uses SYS_kcmp to
deduplicate the per-service file descriptor store.

Note that some distributions such as Ubuntu are already enabling
CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in their configs and so, by extension, SYS_kcmp.

References: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/3046
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> # DRM depends on kcmp
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> # systemd uses kcmp
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210205220012.1983-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk