From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Zyngier Subject: [PATCH 03/31] arm: KVM: Do not use stack-protector to compile HYP code Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 11:45:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20170503104606.19342-4-marc.zyngier@arm.com> References: <20170503104606.19342-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C948940C26 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 06:43:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xMkPUVfvtmZa for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 06:43:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.101.70]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A4840A80 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 06:43:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20170503104606.19342-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Christoffer Dall Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, David Daney , Catalin Marinas , Robert Richter , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu We like living dangerously. Nothing explicitely forbids stack-protector to be used in the HYP code, while distributions routinely compile their kernel with it. We're just lucky that no code actually triggers the instrumentation. Let's not try our luck for much longer, and disable stack-protector for code living at HYP. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier --- arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile index 3023bb530edf..8679405b0b2b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ # Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part # +ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector + KVM=../../../../virt/kvm obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.o -- 2.11.0