Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:03:18AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > If the issues are all about objtool,
> > > "depends on !STACK_VALIDATION" might be
> > > an alternative approach?
> > >
> > > config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> > >            bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> > >            depends on CC_IS_GCC
> > >            depends on !STACK_VALIDATION        # do not confuse objtool
> >
> > Yes, that would be another way to handle it.  Though that means the
> > option would effectively be dead on x86-64.
> 
> Does this series help (or is it related to this thread)?
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com/
> Patch 17/25 seems to make STACK_VALIDATION unwinder-dependent (on
> CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER)?

Not really, that series just splits objtool into more granular features,
so objtool is no longer just equivalent to CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION.  So
the above suggestion would probably need to be changed to something like

  depends on !HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION

Or maybe

  depends on !(HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION || NOINSTR_VALIDATION)

But uaccess validation is still mandatory for x86-64, so that would
still unconditionally disable CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH for x86-64.

-- 
Josh