Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:55:05 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 19/21] gcc-plugins: test GCC plugin support in Kconfig |
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2018-03-28 20:44 GMT+09:00 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Masahiro Yamada > <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote: >> Run scripts/gcc-plugin.sh from Kconfig. Users can enable GCC_PLUGINS >> only when it is supported. >> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> >> --- >> >> Changes in v2: None >> >> arch/Kconfig | 4 +++ >> scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 82 ++++++++++++++++---------------------------- >> scripts/gcc-plugin.sh | 1 - >> 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig >> index b42378d..88cc925 100644 >> --- a/arch/Kconfig >> +++ b/arch/Kconfig >> @@ -407,9 +407,13 @@ config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS >> An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with >> GCC plugins. >> >> +config CC_HAS_GCC_PLUGINS >> + bool >> + > > This doesn't seem used anywhere? > >> menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS >> bool "GCC plugins" >> depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS >> + depends on $(success $srctree/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh $HOSTCXX $CC) >> depends on !COMPILE_TEST >> help >> GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the >> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins >> index 25da4c0..19d0d5b 100644 >> --- a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins >> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins >> [...] >> -# If plugins aren't supported, abort the build before hard-to-read compiler >> -# errors start getting spewed by the main build. >> -PHONY += gcc-plugins-check >> -gcc-plugins-check: FORCE >> -ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS >> - ifeq ($(PLUGINCC),) >> - ifneq ($(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS),) >> - $(Q)$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh --show-error $(HOSTCXX) $(CC) || true >> - @echo "Cannot use CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS: your gcc installation does not support plugins, perhaps the necessary headers are missing?" >&2 && exit 1 > > As mentioned in the other email, we lose the error reporting. Now the > lack of plugins is just a silent =n in menuconfig.
This is the right thing to do. Features unsupported by the compiler should be silently disable.
> Keeping > --show-error in the Kconfig call and retaining stderr would be nice.
No. There is no problem to use a compiler without plugin support.
If a user does not want to use plugin in the first place, why does he/she need to be bothered by such information in stderr?
> I need to do some further testing with SANCOV, but otherwise this all > looks correct, and my testing shows it behaving correctly. > > -Kees > > -- > Kees Cook > Pixel Security > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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