linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.10 01/21] fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support

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Message-Id: <20211119171443.942886211@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:37:36 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 01/21] fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support

From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

commit a52f8a59aef46b59753e583bf4b28fccb069ce64 upstream.

Clang has never correctly compiled the FORTIFY_SOURCE defenses due to
a couple bugs:

	Eliding inlines with matching __builtin_* names
	https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50322

	Incorrect __builtin_constant_p() of some globals
	https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41459

In the process of making improvements to the FORTIFY_SOURCE defenses, the
first (silent) bug (coincidentally) becomes worked around, but exposes
the latter which breaks the build. As such, Clang must not be used with
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE until at least latter bug is fixed (in Clang 13),
and the fortify routines have been rearranged.

Update the Kconfig to reflect the reality of the current situation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOd=A+ueGV2ihdy5GtgR2fQbcXjjAtVxv3=cPjffpebZB7A@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 security/Kconfig |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN
 config FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
 	depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
+	# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50322
+	# https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41459
+	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG
 	help
 	  Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions
 	  where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes.