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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 01:01:29 +0300
From: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] stackleak: Register the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass
before the 'mach' pass
On 30.11.2018 20:12, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:20 AM Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Currently the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass deleting a CALL insn is executed
>>> after the 'reload' pass. That allows gcc to do some weird optimization in
>>> function prologues and epilogues, which are generated later [1].
>>>
>>> Let's avoid that by registering the 'stackleak_cleanup' pass before
>>> the 'mach' pass, which performs the machine dependent code transformations.
>>> It's the moment when the stack frame size is final and function prologues
>>> and epilogues are already generated.
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/11/23/2
>>>
>>> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
>>
>> Thanks, applied!
>
> Eek, no, this is breaking my build badly:
>
> *** WARNING *** there are active plugins, do not report this as a bug
> unless you can reproduce it without enabling any plugins.
> Event | Plugins
> PLUGIN_START_UNIT | stackleak_plugin
> kernel/exit.c: In function ‘release_task’:
> kernel/exit.c:228:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> }
>
> Failing with:
>
> gcc (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0
Nice... I don't reproduce it with gcc-7.3 built from source.
I'll investigate this, return with details and we'll decide what to do.
Thanks,
Alexander
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