Re: [PATCH 2/3] compiler-gcc.h: __nostackprotector needs gcc-4.4 and up

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Gcc versions before 4.4 do not recognize the __optimize__ compiler
>> attribute:
>>
>>     warning: â__optimize__â attribute directive ignored
>>
>> Fixes: 7375ae3a0b79ea07 ("compiler-gcc.h: Introduce __nostackprotector function attribute")
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Can anyone please verify this?
>> Apparently __nostackprotector is used on x86 only, which is usually
>> served by modern compilers.
>
> I've checked that __optimize("no-stack-protector") is accepted by exactly those
> compilers that your 40400 version check tests for, across all architectures, so
> that's fine.

Thanks!

> However,  looking at commit 91cfc88c66bf ("x86: Use __nostackprotect for
> sme_encrypt_kernel"), I suspect that gcc-4.1 through 4.3 will now cause
> a runtime failure in sme_encrypt_kernel() without a compile-time warning.

So having this functionality is a hard requirement. Oops...

> I would leave __nostackprotector unchanged here, so we at least get
> a warning for functions that need to disable the stack protector to work
> correctly.

Agreed.

> We might want to add an #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR around
> the __nostackprotector definition, so that we only warn if stackprotector
> is globally enabled.

And we might want to remove the dummy in include/linux/compiler_types.h:

#ifndef __nostackprotector
# define __nostackprotector
#endif

BTW, how does this work with non-gcc compilers?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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