Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 31/64] fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support | From | Nathan Chancellor <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:18:58 -0700 |
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On 7/27/2021 1:58 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > Clang has never correctly compiled the FORTIFY_SOURCE defenses due to > a couple bugs: > > Eliding inlines with matching __builtin_* names > https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50322 > > Incorrect __builtin_constant_p() of some globals > https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41459 > > In the process of making improvements to the FORTIFY_SOURCE defenses, the > first (silent) bug (coincidentally) becomes worked around, but exposes > the latter which breaks the build. As such, Clang must not be used with > CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE until at least latter bug is fixed (in Clang 13), > and the fortify routines have been rearranged. > > Update the Kconfig to reflect the reality of the current situation. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > --- > security/Kconfig | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig > index 0ced7fd33e4d..8f0e675e70a4 100644 > --- a/security/Kconfig > +++ b/security/Kconfig > @@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN > config FORTIFY_SOURCE > bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows" > depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE > + # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50322 > + # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41459 > + depends on !CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
Should be !CC_IS_CLANG, Kconfig is hard :)
> help > Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions > where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes. >
Cheers, Nathan
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