firmware: enable run time change of forcing fallback loader

Currently one requires to test four kernel configurations to test the
firmware API completely:

0)
  CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y

1)
  o CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
  o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y

2)
  o CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
  o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
  o CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y

3) When CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m the built-in stuff is disabled, we have
   no current tests for this.

We can reduce the requirements to three kernel configurations by making
fw_config.force_sysfs_fallback a proc knob we flip on off. For kernels that
disable CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC this can also enable one to inspect if
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK was enabled at build time by checking
the proc value at boot time.

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.h b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.h
index 550498c7fa4c6..ca7e69a8417bb 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.h
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.h
@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@
  *
  * @force_sysfs_fallback: force the sysfs fallback mechanism to be used
  * 	as if one had enabled CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y.
+ * 	Useful to help debug a CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=y
+ * 	functionality on a kernel where that config entry has been disabled.
  * @old_timeout: for internal use
  * @loading_timeout: the timeout to wait for the fallback mechanism before
  * 	giving up, in seconds.
  */
 struct firmware_fallback_config {
-	const bool force_sysfs_fallback;
+	unsigned int force_sysfs_fallback;
 	int old_timeout;
 	int loading_timeout;
 };