linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 34/75] x86/head/64: Build k/head64.c with -fno-stack-protector

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Message-ID: <20200715163446.GB24822@suse.de>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:34:47 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Cfir Cohen <cfir@...gle.com>,
        Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@...gle.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mike Stunes <mstunes@...are.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Martin Radev <martin.b.radev@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/75] x86/head/64: Build k/head64.c with
 -fno-stack-protector

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:34:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 02:08:36PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > +# make sure head64.c is built without stack protector
> > +nostackp := $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
> > +CFLAGS_head64.o		:= $(nostackp)
> 
> Recent refactoring[1] for stack protector suggests this should just
> unconditionally be:
> 
> CFLAGS_head64.o			+= -fno-stack-protector
> 
> But otherwise, yeah, this should be fine here -- it's all early init
> stuff.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Thanks, I am not sure this patch will be needed in the next version, as
I am currently rebasing to tip/master, which also made idt_descr static
in kernel/idt.c.

So with that I think I have to move the early IDT init functions to
kernel/idt.c too and setup %gs earlier in head_64.S to make
stack-protector happy.

The %gs setup actually needs to happen two times, one time when the
kernel still runs identity mapped and then again when it switched to
virtual addresses.

Regards,

	Joerg