[PATCH] x86: Disable generation of traditional x87 instructions
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 19:55:57 EST
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
We recently had the case where wrongly used floating-constant 'E' caused
the generation of traditional x87 instructions in kernel code and
wreaking all kinds of havoc.
Disable the generation of those too. This will save people a lot of time
when trying to debug such issues by erroring out of the build instead of
let them manifest themselves in very spectacular and happy-crappy ways
at runtime.
We're using -mno-fp-ret-in-387 in addition to -mno-80387 (which is ==
-msoft-float) because, as the gcc manpage says:
On machines where a function returns floating-point results in the
80387 register stack, some floating-point opcodes may be emitted even
if -msoft-float is used.
so we want to turn off *all* non-integer instructions involving any
architectural FPU state, unless it is absolutely necessary (and those
cases need special handling anyway).
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index eeda43abed6e..a414b1471ffc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ else
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m64
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m64
- # Don't autogenerate MMX or SSE instructions
- KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse
+ # Don't autogenerate traditional x87, MMX or SSE instructions
+ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387
# Use -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 if supported.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=3)
--
1.8.5.2.192.g7794a68
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