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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:51:12 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Makefile: Introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 12:20:04PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> As described in the final patch:
>>
>> Nearly all modern compilers support a stack-protector option, and nearly
>> all modern distributions enable the kernel stack-protector, so enabling
>> this by default in kernel builds would make sense. However, Kconfig does
>> not have knowledge of available compiler features, so it isn't safe to
>> force on, as this would unconditionally break builds for the compilers
>> or architectures that don't have support. Instead, this introduces a new
>> option, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO, which attempts to discover the best
>> possible stack-protector available, and will allow builds to proceed even
>> if the compiler doesn't support any stack-protector.
>>
>> This option is made the default so that kernels built with modern
>> compilers will be protected-by-default against stack buffer overflows,
>> avoiding things like the recent BlueBorne attack. Selection of a specific
>> stack-protector option remains available, including disabling it.
>
> I gave this a spin atop of v4.14-rc3 with a few arm64 toolchains I had
> installed:
>
> * Linaro 17.08 GCC 7.1 // strong
> * Linaro 17.05 GCC 6.1 // strong
> * Linaro 15.08 GCC 5.1 // strong
> * Linaro 14.09 GCC 4.9 // strong
> * Linaro 13.06 GCC 4.8 // none
> * Linaro 13.01 GCC 4.7 // none
>
> AFAICT, the detection is correct, and arm64 toolchains only gained stack
> protector support in GCC 4.9. I manually tested GCC 4.8 and 4.7, and
> got:
>
> warning: -fstack-protector not supported for this target [enabled by default]
>
> ... so that looks good to me.
>
> One thing I noticed was taht even when the build system detects no
> support for stack-protector, it still passes -DCONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
> to the toolchain. Is that expected?
Oops, that's a mistake. I had a think-o in the Makefile logic. I will
send a follow-up to fix it.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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