Re: [clang] stack protector and f1f029c7bf

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:12 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:52 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:26 PM Nick Desaulniers <
ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 11:59 AM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Issue 3: Let's face it, reading and writing the flags should be
> > builtins,
> > > exactly because it has to do stack operations, which really means the
> > > compiler should be involved.

> > > I'm happy to propose that as a feature request to llvm+gcc.

> > Oh, looks like both clang and gcc have:
> > __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u64()

> > https://godbolt.org/g/SwPjhq

> > Maybe native_save_fl() and native_restore_fl() should be replaced in the
> > kernel with
> > __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u64() and __builtin_ia32_writeeflags_u64()?
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > ~Nick Desaulniers

> Looks like those builtins got added to GCC around the 4.9 timeframe:
> https://godbolt.org/g/9VS2E9

> Problematically, it seems that GCC does not have __has_builtin to do
> feature detection:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#feature-checking-macros
> https://godbolt.org/g/oku8ux

Is there a more canonical way the kernel does feature detection that looks
better than:

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
index 89f08955fff7..90974b5d023c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
   * Interrupt control:
   */

+#ifdef GCC_VERSION
+#if GCC_VERSION < 40900
  static inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void)
  {
         unsigned long flags;
@@ -38,6 +40,17 @@ static inline void native_restore_fl(unsigned long flags)
                      :"g" (flags)
                      :"memory", "cc");
  }
+#else
+static inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void)
+{
+       return __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u64();
+}
+static inline void native_restore_fl(unsigned long flags)
+{
+       __builtin_ia32_writeeflags_u64(flags);
+}
+#endif
+

  static inline void native_irq_disable(void)
  {

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers