[PATCH v3] hardening: Default randstruct off with rust for better allmodconfig support
Mark Brown
broonie at kernel.org
Thu Jul 2 17:37:08 UTC 2026
Currently randstruct does not support rust so we have Kconfig dependencies
which prevent rust being enabled when randstruct is. Unfortunately this
prevents rust being enabled in allmodconfig, our standard coverage build.
randstruct gets turned on by default, then the dependency on !RANDSTRUCT
causes rust to get disabled.
Work around this by disabling randstruct by default if we have a usable
rust toolchain and rust support for the architecture, circular
dependencies prevent us directly depending on !RUST. This means we might
end up with a configuration that disables both rust and randstruct but
hopefully it's more likely go give the expected result.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
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Changes in v3:
- Rebase onto v7.2-rc1.
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605-rust-reverse-randstruct-dep-v2-1-93d38023b6f9@kernel.org
Changes in v2:
- Add a HAVE_RUST in there too.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605-rust-reverse-randstruct-dep-v1-1-45ce9ee8d0d1@kernel.org
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security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 6923036e1a2f..81c81ad983ad 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ config CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT
choice
prompt "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
- default RANDSTRUCT_FULL if COMPILE_TEST && (GCC_PLUGINS || CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT)
+ default RANDSTRUCT_FULL if !(RUST_IS_AVAILABLE && HAVE_RUST) && COMPILE_TEST && (GCC_PLUGINS || CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT)
default RANDSTRUCT_NONE
help
If you enable this, the layouts of structures that are entirely
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base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
change-id: 20260605-rust-reverse-randstruct-dep-5a504c861128
Best regards,
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Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
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