Re: [PATCH 06/18] add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)

Sami Tolvanen
2019-10-23T16:59:34Z

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:28 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> I think it would be preferable to follow the example of CC_FLAGS_FTRACE
> so that this can be filtered out, e.g.
>
> ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> CFLAGS_SCS := -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_SCS)
> export CC_FLAGS_SCS
> endif
>
> ... with removal being:
>
> CFLAGS_REMOVE := $(CC_FLAGS_SCS)
>
> ... or:
>
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_obj.o := $(CC_FLAGS_SCS)
>
> That way you only need to define the flags once, so the enable and
> disable falgs remain in sync by construction.

CFLAGS_REMOVE appears to be only implemented for objects, which means
there's no convenient way to filter out flags for everything in
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp, for example. I could add a CFLAGS_REMOVE
separately for each object file, or we could add something like
ccflags-remove-y to complement ccflags-y, which should be relatively
simple. Masahiro, do you have any suggestions?

Sami