Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:21:51 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector |
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:13:20PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:00 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN),0) > > KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wframe-larger-than=$(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN) > > endif > > > > -stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE) := -fno-stack-protector > > +stackp-flags-y := -fno-stack-protector > > stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) := -fstack-protector > > stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG) := -fstack-protector-strong > > So it looks like the previous behavior always added > `-fno-stack-protector` (since CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE was > always true), but then we append either `-fstack-protector` or > `-fstack-protector-strong` based on configs. While that's ok, and you > patch doesn't change that behavior, and it's good to be explicit to > set the stack protector or not...it seems weird to have > `-fno-stack-protector -fstack-protector` in the command line flags. I > would prefer if we checked for not having CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR or > CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG before adding `-fno-stack-protector`. > That doesn't have to be done in this patch, per se.
No, it would add only what was latest and most selected. (They're all ":=" assignments.) If CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG, only -fstack-protector-strong is set. If only CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR, only -fstack-protector is set. Otherwise -fno-stack-protector.
-- Kees Cook
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