[PATCH] hardening: Default randstruct off with rust for better allmodconfig support

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Jun 5 16:01:46 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, 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>
---
 security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 86f8768c63d4..1677c4f9637b 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ 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 && COMPILE_TEST && (GCC_PLUGINS || CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT)
 	default RANDSTRUCT_NONE
 	help
 	  If you enable this, the layouts of structures that are entirely

---
base-commit: e43ffb69e0438cddd72aaa30898b4dc446f664f8
change-id: 20260605-rust-reverse-randstruct-dep-5a504c861128

Best regards,
--  
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>




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