[PATCH] hardening: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Mar 03 2025 - 16:49:48 EST
The i386 regparm bug exposed with FORTIFY_SOURCE with Clang was fixed
in Clang 16[1].
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c167c0a4dcdb998affb2756ce76903a12f7d8ca5 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 23ffb0d7c845..c17366ce8224 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ config FORTIFY_SOURCE
bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53645
- depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || !X86_32
+ depends on !X86_32 || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 160000
help
Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions
where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes.
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