From f02003c860d921171be4a27e2893766eb3bc6871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:49:03 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Fixes: dcb7c0b9461c ("hardening: Clarify Kconfig text for auto-var-init") Suggested-by: Will Deacon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210914102837.6172-1-will@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- security/Kconfig.hardening | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'security') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3