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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2021-09-14 12:49:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2021-09-25 08:22:59 -0700 |
| commit | f02003c860d921171be4a27e2893766eb3bc6871 (patch) | |
| tree | 3743423cb2beaf8ff6638895827ffadd913723a8 /security | |
| parent | e4e737bb5c170df6135a127739a9e6148ee3da82 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f02003c860d921171be4a27e2893766eb3bc6871.tar.bz2 | |
hardening: Avoid harmless Clang option under CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO
Currently under Clang, CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO requires an extra
-enable flag compared to CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN. GCC 12[1] will
not, and will happily ignore the Clang-specific flag. However, its
presence on the command-line is both cumbersome and confusing. Due to
GCC's tolerant behavior, though, we can continue to use a single Kconfig
cc-option test for the feature on both compilers, but then drop the
Clang-specific option in the Makefile.
In other words, this patch does not change anything other than making the
compiler command line shorter once GCC supports -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a25e0b5e6ac8a77a71c229e0a7b744603365b0e9
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Fixes: dcb7c0b9461c ("hardening: Clarify Kconfig text for auto-var-init")
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210914102837.6172-1-will@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/Kconfig.hardening | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening index 90cbaff86e13..ded17b8abce2 100644 --- a/security/Kconfig.hardening +++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening @@ -23,13 +23,16 @@ config CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN def_bool $(cc-option,-ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern) config CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO + # GCC ignores the -enable flag, so we can test for the feature with + # a single invocation using the flag, but drop it as appropriate in + # the Makefile, depending on the presence of Clang. def_bool $(cc-option,-ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero -enable-trivial-auto-var-init-zero-knowing-it-will-be-removed-from-clang) choice prompt "Initialize kernel stack variables at function entry" default GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL if COMPILE_TEST && GCC_PLUGINS default INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN if COMPILE_TEST && CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN - default INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO if CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN + default INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO if CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO default INIT_STACK_NONE help This option enables initialization of stack variables at |