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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@mailo.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] meson: warn on GCC < 12.0 due to lack of -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2026 11:35:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903103548.2142568-5-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903103548.2142568-1-berrange@redhat.com>

The security policy for assigning CVEs has an assumption that all
stack variables are zero initialized. Our CLang min version gives
us -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero, but that is only available in GCC
12 onwards.

Our min GCC is 10.4 but only NetBSD has such an old version.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 meson.build | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5315420a41..eeca8d074a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -327,6 +327,12 @@ endif
 foreach lang : all_languages
   compiler = meson.get_compiler(lang)
   if compiler.get_id() == 'gcc' and compiler.version().version_compare('>=10.4')
+      if not compiler.version().version_compare('>=12.0')
+          warning('GCC < 12.0 does not support -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero.')
+          warning('This compiler will not satisfy the QEMU security policy ')
+          warning('for assigning CVE which is predicated on zero-initialization ')
+          warning('of  stack variables. Update to GCC 12.0 or use CLang >= 17.0 ')
+      endif
     # ok
   elif compiler.get_id() == 'clang' and compiler.compiles('''
       #ifdef __apple_build_version__
-- 
2.55.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-03 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-03 10:35 [PATCH 0/4] Bump min compiler versions again Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-03 10:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] meson: simplify clang version checks Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-03 11:35   ` Marc-André Lureau
2026-09-03 11:37     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-03 10:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] meson: bump min XCode CLang to 17.0 Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-03 10:41   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2026-09-03 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] meson: bump min upstream " Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-03 11:30   ` Marc-André Lureau
2026-09-03 10:35 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2026-09-03 11:28   ` [PATCH 4/4] meson: warn on GCC < 12.0 due to lack of -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero Marc-André Lureau
2026-09-03 16:22 ` [PATCH 0/4] Bump min compiler versions again Pierrick Bouvier
2026-09-10 18:04 ` Richard Henderson
2026-09-10 18:24   ` Daniel P. Berrangé

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