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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 02:01:15 -0700
From: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
To: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
pageexec@...email.hu, spender@...ecurity.net, mmarek@...e.com,
keescook@...omium.org, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
fengguang.wu@...el.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] GCC plugin infrastructure
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:04:27AM +0100, Emese Revfy wrote:
>This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
>grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
>building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too but
>currently only the x86 architecture enables plugins.
I've tested this with both ARM and ARM64. There are some missing
headers in the arm64 gcc, reported here:
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2123 (also upstream), but this
should work once that is fixed.
Feel free to fold these into your patch, or, if you prefer, I can send
out separate patches for them.
Signed-off-by: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 4f799e5..67ee8e3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER if (!THUMB2_KERNEL)
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+ select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if (PERF_EVENTS && (CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7))
select HAVE_IDE if PCI || ISA || PCMCIA
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 8cc6228..6d6e4f8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+ select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
select HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT if PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
--
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