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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:24:31 +0100
From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Kernel Self Protection Project
On Mon, Nov 09 2015, Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@...cle.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Adding a plugin should be simple, add its name to $(HOSTLIBS)-y, and use
>> > the regular kbuild system way to specify from which source files it is
>> > built, CFLAGS, etc.
>> >
>> > $(HOSTLIBS)-y = foo.so
>> > foo-objs = foo.c bar.c
>> >
>> > And then to have some compilations units be compiled using foo.so, they
>> > just need the following in their CFLAGS:
>> >
>> > -fplugin=$(objtree)/path/to/foo.so
>>
>> Nice, thanks. But wouldn't it be even more userfriendly to have these
>> things driven by Kconfig? So let (use of) each plugin depend on a
>> CONFIG_GCCPLUGIN_XYZ variable, which will automatically turn itself off
>> (with a warning) if that plugin can't be used for whatever
>> reason. That'll also give a natural place to say a little about the
>> plugin (though I also think Documentation/gccplugins/* should be
>> created). We could hide these behind CONFIG_USE_GCCPLUGINS to make it
>> easy for people to turn off.
>>
>
> Ah agreed, this was just so people could get started quickly. The way to
> do this is to include your plugin flags inside the Makefile variable
> GCC_PLUGIN_CFLAGS, which is exported and stuffed to the KBUILD_CFLAGS.
>
> So if you have plugin foo.so that you want to be used for all of the
> compilation units (and which depends on CONFIG_FOO), then it should be as
> simple as doing this in the top-level Makefile:
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_FOO),y)
> GCC_PLUGIN_CFLAGS += -fplugin=$(objtree)/path/to/foo.so
> endif
>
> The grsecurity/PaX patchset already deals with gcc version and
> GCC_PLUGIN_CFLAGS will only be exported if your gcc version supports
> plugins, otherwise it'll dump a warning and carry on compiling your kernel.
>
> Hope that clarifies things :)
It does.
It would be nice if the plugin infrastructure was as self-contained as
possible, and to get whatever is decided acked by the kbuild maintainers
and Linus well before 4.5.
Is it possible to make a scheme where existing files are touched as
little as possible? E.g. putting all the makefile magic in
e.g. scripts/Makefile.plugins, the Kconfig symbols in
lib/Kconfig.plugins, and the source of the plugins are in lib/plugins/
(at first just in that single directory, which will also make sharing
code between the plugins slightly easier).
Rasmus
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