[PATCH] lkdtm: Prevent the compiler from optimising lkdtm_CORRUPT_STACK()

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 02:03:50 EST


At least on powerpc with GCC 6, the compiler is smart enough to optimise
lkdtm_CORRUPT_STACK() into an empty function that just returns.

If we print the buffer after we've written to it that prevents the
compiler from optimising away data and the memset().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm_bugs.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_bugs.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_bugs.c
index 182ae1894b32..30e62dd7e7ca 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_bugs.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_bugs.c
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ noinline void lkdtm_CORRUPT_STACK(void)
/* Use default char array length that triggers stack protection. */
char data[8];

- memset((void *)data, 0, 64);
+ memset((void *)data, 'a', 64);
+ pr_info("Corrupted stack with '%16s'...\n", data);
}

void lkdtm_UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE(void)
--
2.7.4