linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf: Disable stack protector

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:53:21 +0200
From:   Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>
To:     Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
Cc:     Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf: Disable stack protector

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 14:49 -0800, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:59 AM Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > A bit tangential, but since BPF LLVM backend does not support the
> > stack protector (should it?) there is also an option to adjust LLVM
> > to avoid this instrumentation, WDYT?
> > 
> 
> That would probably be worth doing, yes.

Ok, thanks for the input, I'll see what can be done.

> But given that won't help already released versions of clang, it
> should probably happen in addition to this patch.

Yes, of-course.