514ca14ed5
Back during the discussion of
commit a9a3ed1eff36 ("x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try")
we discussed the need for a function attribute to control the omission
of stack protectors on a per-function basis; at the time Clang had
support for no_stack_protector but GCC did not. This was fixed in
gcc-11. Now that the function attribute is available, let's start using
it.
Callers of boot_init_stack_canary need to use this function attribute
unless they're compiled with -fno-stack-protector, otherwise the canary
stored in the stack slot of the caller will differ upon the call to
boot_init_stack_canary. This will lead to a call to __stack_chk_fail()
then panic.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94722
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200316130414.GC12561@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412-no_stackp-v2-1-116f9fe4bbe7@google.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: ndesaulniers@google.com <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Linux kernel
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