Messages in this thread | | | From | Brian Gerst <> | Date | Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:14:11 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 35/75] x86/head/64: Build k/head64.c with -fno-stack-protector |
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:18 AM Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:58:18AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:28 AM Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote: > > > The proper fix would be to initialize MSR_GS_BASE earlier. > > That'll mean to initialize it two times during boot, as the first C > function with stack-protection is called before the kernel switches to > its high addresses (early_idt_setup call-path). But okay, I can do that.
Good point. Since this is boot code which isn't subject to stack smashing attacks, disabling stack protector is probably the simpler option.
-- Brian Gerst
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