Re: [PATCH V5 03/50] x86/traps: Remove stack-protector from traps.c

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 07:56:49PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When stack-protector is enabled, the compiler adds some instrument code
> at the beginning and the end of some functions. Many functions in traps.c
> are non-instrumentable.  Moreover, stack-protector code in the beginning
> of the affected function accesses the canary that might be watched by
> hardware breakpoints which also violate the non-instrumentable
> nature of some functions and might cause infinite recursive #DB because
> the canary is accessed before resetting the dr7.
> 
> So it is better to remove stack-protector from traps.c.
> 
> It is also prepared for later patches that move some entry code into
> traps.c, some of which can NOT use percpu register until gsbase is
> properly switched.  And stack-protector depends on the percpu register
> to work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> index 2ff3e600f426..8ac45801ba8b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT		:= n
>  
>  CFLAGS_head$(BITS).o	+= -fno-stack-protector
>  CFLAGS_cc_platform.o	+= -fno-stack-protector
> +CFLAGS_traps.o		+= -fno-stack-protector

Well, there's a lot more noinstr than just in traps. There's also real C
code in traps. This isn't really a solution.

I think GCC has recently grown __attribute__((no_stack_protector)),
which should be added to noinstr (GCC-11 and above).

Additionally we could add code to objtool to detect this problem.