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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:34:25 -0800
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, 
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, 
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, 
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, 
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, 
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, 
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/14] add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:37 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> > +config SHADOW_CALL_STACK_VMAP
> > +     bool
> > +     depends on SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> > +     help
> > +       Use virtually mapped shadow call stacks. Selecting this option
> > +       provides better stack exhaustion protection, but increases per-thread
> > +       memory consumption as a full page is allocated for each shadow stack.
>
> The bool needs some display text to make it selectable.
>
> This should probably be below SHADOW_CALL_STACK so that when it shows up
> in menuconfig it's where you'd expect it to be.
>
> I locally hacked that in, but when building defconfig +
> SHADOW_CALL_STACK + SHADOW_CALL_STACK_VMAP, the build explodes as below:

Ugh, thanks for pointing this out. I'll fix this in v6.

Sami

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