[PATCH v2 1/1] stackleak: Register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before the '*free_cfg' pass
From: Alexander Popov
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 10:13:24 EST
Currently the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting a CALL insn is executed
after the 'reload' pass. That allows gcc to do some weird optimization in
function prologues and epilogues, which are generated later [1].
Let's avoid that by registering the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before
the '*free_cfg' pass. It's the moment when the stack frame size is
already final, function prologues and epilogues are generated, and the
machine-dependent code transformations are not done.
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/11/23/2
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
index 2f48da9..dbd3746 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/stackleak_plugin.c
@@ -363,10 +363,12 @@ __visible int plugin_init(struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
/*
- * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed after the
- * "reload" pass, when the stack frame size is final.
+ * The stackleak_cleanup pass should be executed before the "*free_cfg"
+ * pass. It's the moment when the stack frame size is already final,
+ * function prologues and epilogues are generated, and the
+ * machine-dependent code transformations are not done.
*/
- PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "reload", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_AFTER);
+ PASS_INFO(stackleak_cleanup, "*free_cfg", 1, PASS_POS_INSERT_BEFORE);
if (!plugin_default_version_check(version, &gcc_version)) {
error(G_("incompatible gcc/plugin versions"));
--
2.7.4