Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure

From: David Brown
Date: Wed Mar 09 2016 - 04:01:30 EST


On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:04:27AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:

This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too but
currently only the x86 architecture enables plugins.

I've tested this with both ARM and ARM64. There are some missing
headers in the arm64 gcc, reported here:
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2123 (also upstream), but this
should work once that is fixed.

Feel free to fold these into your patch, or, if you prefer, I can send
out separate patches for them.

Signed-off-by: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 4f799e5..67ee8e3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if (!THUMB2_KERNEL)
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+ select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if (PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7))
select HAVE_IDE if PCI || ISA || PCMCIA
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 8cc6228..6d6e4f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+ select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
--