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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: dcb7c0b946 ("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>
This commit is contained in:
Kees Cook 2021-09-14 12:49:03 -07:00
parent e4e737bb5c
commit f02003c860
2 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -831,12 +831,12 @@ endif
# Initialize all stack variables with a zero value.
ifdef CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO
# Future support for zero initialization is still being debated, see
# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45497. These flags are subject to being
# renamed or dropped.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45497
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -enable-trivial-auto-var-init-zero-knowing-it-will-be-removed-from-clang
endif
endif
# While VLAs have been removed, GCC produces unreachable stack probes
# for the randomize_kstack_offset feature. Disable it for all compilers.

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security/Kconfig.hardening
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@ -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