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authorEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>2016-05-24 00:09:38 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>2016-06-07 22:57:10 +0200
commit6b90bd4ba40b38dc13c2782469c1c77e4ed79915 (patch)
tree02d65b38b76e3543d33088ae9149010bae0290b0 /arch/Kconfig
parent24403874316a7180d367e51d7f7e25d5de1f78dd (diff)
downloadlinux-6b90bd4ba40b38dc13c2782469c1c77e4ed79915.tar.bz2
GCC plugin infrastructure
This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too. Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins. The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory there. The plugins compile with these options: * -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too * -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too * -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too * -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal errors) * -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h) * -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version variable, plugin-version.h) The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0. The scripts/gcc-plugin.sh script chooses the proper host compiler (gcc-4.7 can be built by either gcc or g++). This script also checks the availability of the included headers in scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h. The gcc-common.h header contains frequently included headers for GCC plugins and it has a compatibility layer for the supported gcc versions. The gcc-generate-*-pass.h headers automatically generate the registration structures for GIMPLE, SIMPLE_IPA, IPA and RTL passes. Note that 'make clean' keeps the *.so files (only the distclean or mrproper targets clean all) because they are needed for out-of-tree modules. Based on work created by the PaX Team. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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@@ -357,6 +357,21 @@ config SECCOMP_FILTER
See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
+config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
+ bool
+ help
+ An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
+ GCC plugins.
+
+menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
+ bool "GCC plugins"
+ depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
+ help
+ GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
+ compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
+
+ See Documentation/gcc-plugins.txt for details.
+
config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
bool
help