The patch titled Subject: mm/kfence: remove unnecessary CONFIG_KFENCE option has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-kfence-remove-unnecessary-config_kfence-option.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-kfence-remove-unnecessary-config_kfence-option.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-kfence-remove-unnecessary-config_kfence-option.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: tangmeng <tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/kfence: remove unnecessary CONFIG_KFENCE option In mm/Makefile has: obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/ So that we don't need 'obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) :=' in mm/kfence/Makefile, delete it from mm/kfence/Makefile. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221065525.21344-1-tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: tangmeng <tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kfence/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/kfence/Makefile~mm-kfence-remove-unnecessary-config_kfence-option +++ a/mm/kfence/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) := core.o report.o +obj-y := core.o report.o CFLAGS_kfence_test.o := -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE_KUNIT_TEST) += kfence_test.o _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tangmeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-kfence-remove-unnecessary-config_kfence-option.patch