Re: [PATCH v5 02/16] x86: Raise minimum GCC version to 8.1

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 14 2025 - 11:26:24 EST


On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 10:57:47AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Stack protector support on 64-bit currently requires that the percpu
> section is linked at absolute address 0 because older compilers fixed
> the location of the canary value relative to the GS segment base.
> GCC 8.1 introduced options to change where the canary value is located,
> allowing it to be configured as a standard percpu variable. This has
> already been done for 32-bit. Doing the same for 64-bit will enable
> removing the code needed to suport zero-based percpu.

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