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[net-next] security: bpf: replace include of linux/bpf.h with forward declarations

Message ID 20171101184800.16416-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [net-next] security: bpf: replace include of linux/bpf.h with forward declarations | expand

Commit Message

Jakub Kicinski Nov. 1, 2017, 6:48 p.m. UTC 
Touching linux/bpf.h makes us rebuild a surprisingly large
portion of the kernel.  Remove the unnecessary dependency
from security.h, it only needs forward declarations.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
---
 include/linux/security.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Alexei Starovoitov Nov. 1, 2017, 6:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:48:00AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Touching linux/bpf.h makes us rebuild a surprisingly large
> portion of the kernel.  Remove the unnecessary dependency
> from security.h, it only needs forward declarations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

thanks for fixing! I noticed larger rebuilds as well.
Daniel Borkmann Nov. 1, 2017, 8:28 p.m. UTC | #2 
On 11/01/2017 07:48 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Touching linux/bpf.h makes us rebuild a surprisingly large
> portion of the kernel.  Remove the unnecessary dependency
> from security.h, it only needs forward declarations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
David Miller Nov. 2, 2017, 7:50 a.m. UTC | #3 
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Nov 2017 11:48:00 -0700

> Touching linux/bpf.h makes us rebuild a surprisingly large
> portion of the kernel.  Remove the unnecessary dependency
> from security.h, it only needs forward declarations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 18800b0911e5..73f1ef625d40 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ 
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
-#include <linux/bpf.h>
 
 struct linux_binprm;
 struct cred;
@@ -1732,6 +1731,10 @@  static inline void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL
+union bpf_attr;
+struct bpf_map;
+struct bpf_prog;
+struct bpf_prog_aux;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
 extern int security_bpf(int cmd, union bpf_attr *attr, unsigned int size);
 extern int security_bpf_map(struct bpf_map *map, fmode_t fmode);