This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: move CONFIG_BLOCK guard to top Makefile
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-move-config_block-guard-to-top-makefile.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ad87171b3cee02bf6549470202cf014da959d77e
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 27 23:00:00 2021 +0900
block: move CONFIG_BLOCK guard to top Makefile
[ Upstream commit 4c928904ff771a8e830773b71a080047365324a5 ]
Every object under block/ depends on CONFIG_BLOCK.
Move the guard to the top Makefile since there is no point to
descend into block/ if CONFIG_BLOCK=n.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210927140000.866249-5-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 998b30c3948e ("io_uring: Fix a null-ptr-deref in io_tctx_exit_cb()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bc1cf1200b62..0acea54c2ffd 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1150,7 +1150,8 @@ export MODORDER := $(extmod_prefix)modules.order
export MODULES_NSDEPS := $(extmod_prefix)modules.nsdeps
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
-core-y += kernel/ certs/ mm/ fs/ ipc/ security/ crypto/ block/
+core-y += kernel/ certs/ mm/ fs/ ipc/ security/ crypto/
+core-$(CONFIG_BLOCK) += block/
vmlinux-dirs := $(patsubst %/,%,$(filter %/, \
$(core-y) $(core-m) $(drivers-y) $(drivers-m) \
diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile
index 41aa1ba69c90..74df168729ec 100644
--- a/block/Makefile
+++ b/block/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# Makefile for the kernel block layer
#
-obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK) := bdev.o fops.o bio.o elevator.o blk-core.o blk-sysfs.o \
+obj-y := bdev.o fops.o bio.o elevator.o blk-core.o blk-sysfs.o \
blk-flush.o blk-settings.o blk-ioc.o blk-map.o \
blk-exec.o blk-merge.o blk-timeout.o \
blk-lib.o blk-mq.o blk-mq-tag.o blk-stat.o \
