Re: [PATCH] selftests: vDSO: Fix header search list for vgetrandom-chacha.S

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2026, at 18:43, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On aarch64, vgetrandom-chacha.S includes the assembler file from
> arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom-chacha.S, and that includes
> <asm/assembler.h> which in turn includes lots of system header files.
> For this, we should make sure that the kernel headers of the
> *current* kernel are in the search path of the compiler, otherwise
> we end up including headers from /usr/include of the current distro
> instead, and this is calling for trouble! Thus use $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
> here to make sure that we are using the right header files.
> (This issue has been found in a patch series that replaces __ASSEMBLY__
> with __ASSEMBLER__ in the various kernel headers and finally stops
> defining __ASSEMBLY__ in the kernel makefiles - when vgetrandom-chacha.S
> now tries to include a header from /usr/include the compilation fails
> since those headers still require __ASSEMBLY__ to fence away the C code)
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  See this link for the build failure:
>  
> https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/9e294bfd-4704-42a5-a704-f301f4afe042@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> # (build tested)

If you like, I can add this to the asm-generic tree to avoid the
regression from your series, or Shuah can pick this up the normal
way as a bugfix for kselftest.

      Arnd