linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

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Message-ID: <20200316175450.GO26126@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:54:50 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:42:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Right I know, I looked for it recently :/ But since this is new in 10
> and 10 isn't released yet, I figured someone can add the attribute
> before it does get released.

Yes, that would be a good solution.

I looked at what happens briefly after building gcc10 from git and IINM,
the function in question - start_secondary() - already gets the stack
canary asm glue added so it checks for a stack canary.

However, the stack canary value itself gets set later in that same
function:

        /* to prevent fake stack check failure in clock setup */
        boot_init_stack_canary();

so the asm glue which checks for it would need to reload the newly
computed canary value (it is 0 before we compute it and thus the
mismatch).

So having a way to state "do not add stack canary checking to this
particular function" would be optimal. And since you already have the
"stack_protect" function attribute I figure adding a "no_stack_protect"
one should be easy...

> > Or of course you could add noinline attribute to whatever got inlined
> > and contains some array or addressable variable that whatever
> > -fstack-protector* mode kernel uses triggers it.  With -fstack-protector-all
> > it would never work even in the past I believe.
> 
> I don't think the kernel supports -fstack-protector-all, but I could be
> mistaken.

The other thing I was thinking was to carve out only that function into
a separate compilation unit and disable stack protector only for it.

All IMHO of course.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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