[PATCH] kbuild: Provide way to actually disable stack protector

Kees Cook
2020-06-22T19:02:26Z

Some builds of GCC enable stack protector by default. Simply removing
the arguments is not sufficient to disable stack protector, as the stack
protector for those GCC builds must be explicitly disabled. (Removing the
arguments is left as-is just to be sure there are no ordering problems. If
-fno-stack-protector ended up _before_ -fstack-protector, it would not
disable it: GCC uses whichever -f... comes last on the command line.)

Fixes: 20355e5f73a7 ("x86/entry: Exclude low level entry code from sanitizing")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
Makefile | 4 +++-
arch/Kconfig | 3 ---
arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 4 ++--
arch/x86/entry/Makefile | 3 +++
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ac2c61c37a73..b46e91bf0b0e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -762,7 +762,9 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN),0)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wframe-larger-than=$(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN)
endif

-stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE) := -fno-stack-protector
+DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR := $(call cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
+export DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR
+stackp-flags-y := $(DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR)
stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) := -fstack-protector
stackp-flags-$(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG) := -fstack-protector-strong

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 8cc35dc556c7..1ea61290900a 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -478,9 +478,6 @@ config HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
An arch should select this symbol if:
- it has implemented a stack canary (e.g. __stack_chk_guard)

-config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
- def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
-
config STACKPROTECTOR
bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
depends on HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 00602a6fba04..3693bac525d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ endif

# -fstack-protector-strong triggers protection checks in this code,
# but it is being used too early to link to meaningful stack_chk logic.
-nossp-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE) := -fno-stack-protector
$(foreach o, $(libfdt_objs) atags_to_fdt.o, \
- $(eval CFLAGS_$(o) := -I $(srctree)/scripts/dtc/libfdt $(nossp-flags-y)))
+ $(eval CFLAGS_$(o) := -I $(srctree)/scripts/dtc/libfdt \
+ $(DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR)))

# These were previously generated C files. When you are building the kernel
# with O=, make sure to remove the stale files in the output tree. Otherwise,
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/Makefile
index b7a5790d8d63..79902decc3d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
CFLAGS_REMOVE_common.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong
CFLAGS_REMOVE_syscall_32.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong
CFLAGS_REMOVE_syscall_64.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong
+CFLAGS_common.o += $(DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR)
+CFLAGS_syscall_32.o += $(DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR)
+CFLAGS_syscall_64.o += $(DISABLE_STACKPROTECTOR)

CFLAGS_syscall_64.o += $(call cc-option,-Wno-override-init,)
CFLAGS_syscall_32.o += $(call cc-option,-Wno-override-init,)
--
2.25.1

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Kees Cook