linux-kernel - Re: gcc-10: kernel stack is corrupted and fails to boot

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 23:28:09 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: gcc-10: kernel stack is corrupted and fails to boot

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:48 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:50:03AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> > And now I have a problem :) I first noticed that my x86 testbox is not
> > booting when I compile the kernel with GCC 10.1.0 from crosstool. I
> > didn't get any error messages so I just downgraded the compiler and the
> > kernel was booting fine again. Next I decided to try GCC 10.1 with my
> > x86 laptop and it also failed to boot, but this time I got kernel logs
> > and saw this:
> >
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secodary+0x178/0x180
> >
>
> See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200423161126.GD26021@zn.tnic/

Thanks!

I see the patch in linux-next but not in mainline. I suppose we want it in v5.7
and backported to stable kernels so they can boot when built with gcc-10?

I suppose the only reason that the other architectures don't run into the
problem is that they don't call boot_init_stack_canary() in start_secondary()
though they probably should?

      Arnd