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Configfs can be configured as a loadable module, which causes a link-time
failure for dm-crypt crash dump support:
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.text+0x3a4): undefined reference to `config_item_init_type_name'
aarch64-linux-ld: kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.o: in function `configfs_dmcrypt_keys_init':
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0x90): undefined reference to `config_group_init'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xb4): undefined reference to `configfs_register_subsystem'
aarch64-linux-ld: crash_dump_dm_crypt.c:(.init.text+0xd8): undefined reference to `configfs_unregister_subsystem'
This could be avoided with a dependency on CONFIGFS_FS=y, but the
dependency has an additional problem of causing Kconfig dependency loops
since most other uses select the symbol.
Using a simple 'select CONFIGFS_FS' here in turn fails with
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m, because that still only causes configfs to be a
loadable module.
The only version I found that fixes this reliably uses an additional
Kconfig symbol to ensure the 'select' actually turns on configfs as
builtin, with two additional changes to avoid dependency loops with nvme
and sysfs.
There is no compile-time dependency between configfs and sysfs, so
selecting configfs from a driver with sysfs disabled does not cause link
failures, only the default /sys/kernel/config mount point will not be
created.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521160359.2132363-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 6b23858fd63b ("crash_dump: make dm crypt keys persist for the kdump kernel")
Fixes: 1fb4704084 ("nvme-loop: add configfs dependency")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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config CONFIGFS_FS
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tristate "Userspace-driven configuration filesystem"
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help
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configfs is a RAM-based filesystem that provides the converse
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of sysfs's functionality. Where sysfs is a filesystem-based
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view of kernel objects, configfs is a filesystem-based manager
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of kernel objects, or config_items.
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Both sysfs and configfs can and should exist together on the
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same system. One is not a replacement for the other.
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