From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>, Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86/purgatory: Compile purgatory with -D__NO_FORTIFY and -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:30:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928083055.104266-2-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928083055.104266-1-thuth@redhat.com>
A subsequent patch will add #include <linux/string.h> to <crypto/sha2.h>
to use memzero_explicit() there. This will introduce a conflict with the
purgatory code: purgatory.c includes both, the <crypto/sha2.h> header and
the arch/x86/boot/string.h header. The latter provides its own prototypes
for a lot of string functions which clash with the fortified macros
from <linux/string.h>, causing the compiler to emit errors like this:
In file included from .../linux/include/linux/string.h:383,
from .../linux/include/crypto/sha2.h:10,
from .../linux/arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:14:
.../linux/include/linux/fortify-string.h:576:63: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
576 | p_size_field, q_size_field, op) ({ \
| ^
.../linux/include/linux/fortify-string.h:644:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘__fortify_memcpy_chk’
644 | #define memmove(p, q, s) __fortify_memcpy_chk(p, q, s, \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.../linux/arch/x86/purgatory/../boot/string.h:11:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘memmove’
11 | void *memmove(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);
| ^~~~~~~
.../linux/include/linux/fortify-string.h:208:9: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘__builtin_choose_expr’
208 | __builtin_choose_expr(__is_constexpr(__builtin_strlen(p)), \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./linux/arch/x86/purgatory/../boot/string.h:23:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘strlen’
23 | extern size_t strlen(const char *s);
| ^~~~~~
To avoid the problem, let's compile the whole code in the purgatory with
-D__NO_FORTIFY, so <linux/string.h> can properly be included from headers
like <crypto/sha2.h> in the purgatory, too.
When compiling/linking with the LLVM tools, and CONFIG_CFI=y, there is
an additional problem during linking:
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __memset
>>> referenced by string.c
>>> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro:(__UNIQUE_ID_addressable___memset_5)
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __memmove
>>> referenced by string.c
>>> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro:(__UNIQUE_ID_addressable___memmove_6)
This can be fixed by moving the -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS to the general CFLAGS
of the purgatory, too.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
index 5ce1d42630000..fad91ea28fe71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ $(obj)/string.o: $(srctree)/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c FORCE
$(obj)/sha256.o: $(srctree)/lib/crypto/sha256.c FORCE
$(call if_changed_rule,cc_o_c)
-CFLAGS_sha256.o := -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS -D__NO_FORTIFY
-
# When profile-guided optimization is enabled, llvm emits two different
# overlapping text sections, which is not supported by kexec. Remove profile
# optimization flags.
@@ -37,6 +35,7 @@ PURGATORY_CFLAGS := -mcmodel=small -ffreestanding -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -
PURGATORY_CFLAGS += -fpic -fvisibility=hidden
PURGATORY_CFLAGS += $(DISABLE_KSTACK_ERASE) -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
PURGATORY_CFLAGS += -fno-stack-protector
+PURGATORY_CFLAGS += -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS -D__NO_FORTIFY
# Default KBUILD_CFLAGS can have -pg option set when FTRACE is enabled. That
# in turn leaves some undefined symbols like __fentry__ in purgatory and not
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-28 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 8:30 [PATCH 0/3] lib/crypto: Provide functions for zeroizing SHA2 hmac_sha* structures Thomas Huth
2026-09-28 8:30 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2026-09-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] lib/crypto: sha2: " Thomas Huth
2026-09-28 8:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] smb: client: Use hmac_sha256_zeroize_ctx function to clear hmac_sha256_ctx Thomas Huth
2026-09-30 16:55 ` [PATCH 0/3] lib/crypto: Provide functions for zeroizing SHA2 hmac_sha* structures Eric Biggers
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