linux-kernel - Re: more build problems with "Makefile: move stackprotector availability out of Kconfig"

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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:41:16 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more build problems with "Makefile: move stackprotector
 availability out of Kconfig"

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

>> index dbfb978..d5bc694 100755
>> --- a/config.guess
>> +++ b/config.guess
>> @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ EOF
>>         echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-dec-linux-${LIBC}
>>         exit ;;
>>      x86_64:Linux:*:*)
>> -       echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-unknown-linux-${LIBC}
>> +       echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-pc-linux-${LIBC}
>>         exit ;;
>>      xtensa*:Linux:*:*)
>>         echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-unknown-linux-${LIBC}
>>
>> I still don't know why that makes a difference, but all versions
>> prior to gcc-6.1 have the problem for me.
>
> What happens if you add -mstack-protector-guard=tls ?

With gcc-4.8 an earlier, I get build failure:

cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mstack-protector-guard=tls"

With gcc-4.9 and gcc-5, I get this output:

        .file   ""
        .text
        .globl  foo
        .type   foo, @function
foo:
        pushq   %rbp
        movq    %rsp, %rbp
        subq    $208, %rsp
        movq    __stack_chk_guard(%rip), %rax
        movq    %rax, -8(%rbp)
        xorl    %eax, %eax
        movl    $3, %eax
        movq    -8(%rbp), %rdx
        xorq    __stack_chk_guard(%rip), %rdx
        je      .L3
        call    __stack_chk_fail
.L3:
        leave
        ret
        .size   foo, .-foo
        .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 5.4.1 20170626"
        .section        .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

     Arnd