[PATCH 6.12 027/113] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-09T14:37:57Z

From: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan_li@163.com>

[ Upstream commit e396a74222654486d6ab45dca5d0c54c408b8b91 ]

Some distributions (such as Ubuntu) configure GCC so that
_FORTIFY_SOURCE is automatically enabled at -O1 or above. This results
in some fortified version of definitions of standard library functions
are included. While linker resolves the symbols, the fortified versions
might override the definitions in lib/string_override.c and reference to
those PLT entries in GLIBC. This is not a problem for the code in host,
but it is a disaster for the guest code. E.g., if build and run
x86/nested_emulation_test on Ubuntu 24.04 will encounter a L1 #PF due to
memset() reference to __memset_chk@plt.

The option -fno-builtin-memset is not helpful here, because those
fortified versions are not built-in but some definitions which are
included by header, they are for different intentions.

In order to eliminate the unpredictable behaviors may vary depending on
the linker and platform, add the "-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE" into CFLAGS to
prevent from introducing the fortified definitions.

Signed-off-by: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan_li@163.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122053551.548229-1-zhiquan_li@163.com
Fixes: 6b6f71484bf4 ("KVM: selftests: Implement memcmp(), memcpy(), and memset() for guest use")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[sean: tag for stable]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ Makefile.kvm -> Makefile ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ LINUX_TOOL_ARCH_INCLUDE = $(top_srcdir)/
endif
CFLAGS += -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wuninitialized -O2 -g -std=gnu99 \
-Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end -MD -MP -DCONFIG_64BIT \
+ -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE \
-fno-builtin-memcmp -fno-builtin-memcpy \
-fno-builtin-memset -fno-builtin-strnlen \
-fno-stack-protector -fno-PIE -fno-strict-aliasing \