linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] gcc-plugins: Force full rebuild when plugins change

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Message-ID: <202505021337.DCC59E49@keescook>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 13:39:15 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gcc-plugins: Force full rebuild when plugins change

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 12:48:16PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> There was no dependency between the plugins changing and the rest of the
> kernel being built. Enforce this by including a synthetic header file
> when using plugins, that is regenerated any time the plugins are built.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
> Cc: <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 2 +-
>  scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
> index 5b8a8378ca8a..b0d2b9ccf42c 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN
>  
>  # All the plugin CFLAGS are collected here in case a build target needs to
>  # filter them out of the KBUILD_CFLAGS.
> -GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y))
> +GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y)) -include $(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/deps.h

This doesn't work[1] because CFLAGS_REMOVE and so many other places use
filter-out (instead of subst) to remove flags, thinking flags are
singular. But adding "-include path.h" means "-include" gets removed in
a "$(filter-out $GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS, ...)" case. :(

Ugh.

-Kees

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202505021403.blhkPRXG-lkp@intel.com/

-- 
Kees Cook