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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Keith Packard <keithpac@amazon.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
	Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] gcc-plugins: arm-ssp: Prepare for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK support
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:26:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109150902.448CA338B@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXGpKvxYYXQwvhvRQb89z+0PsDVLx-eB1fQ8FnU=_K+nNQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 08:37:44AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 00:04, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ard,
> >
> > thanks for this patch series!
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:40 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > >  config STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
> > >         bool "Use a unique stack canary value for each task"
> > > -       depends on GCC_PLUGINS && STACKPROTECTOR && SMP && !XIP_DEFLATED_DATA
> > > +       depends on GCC_PLUGINS && STACKPROTECTOR && THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK && !XIP_DEFLATED_DATA
> > >         select GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK
> >
> > Am I reading this right that STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
> > was available for ARMv6 with SMP before this
> > change and after this change it will only be available for
> > ARMv7 since THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which is now a dependency
> > will only be available for ARMv7 (or ARMv6k)?
> >
> 
> Yes. We could potentially keep the old code path in the plugin as
> well, but what I would really prefer to do is get
> -mstack-protector-guard=tls implemented in GCC, so we can phase out
> the plugin entirely.

For tracking, I've added this for arm32 support:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102352

(And updated https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/29)

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Kees Cook

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-13 10:39 [PATCH v4 0/5] ARM: support THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 10:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] gcc-plugins: arm-ssp: Prepare for THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK support Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 15:40   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 22:04   ` Linus Walleij
2021-09-15  6:37     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-15 16:26       ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-09-13 10:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] ARM: smp: Pass task to secondary_start_kernel Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 23:25   ` Linus Walleij
2021-09-13 10:39 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] ARM: smp: Free up the TLS register while running in the kernel Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 10:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] ARM: smp: Store current pointer in TPIDRURO register if available Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 11:22   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-13 12:52     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 13:52       ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-13 10:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] ARM: smp: Enable THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-13 11:23 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] ARM: support THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK Russell King (Oracle)
2021-09-13 15:40 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14  9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-14  9:50   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-09-14 13:07     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-14 17:10       ` Ard Biesheuvel

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