cross compile fails with GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY

cross compile fails with GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY

[Tadhg McDonald-Jensen]

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Hello,

When cross compiling the linux kernel with
`CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y` it tries to compile the plugin for
the target platform instead of for the host machine causing the
compilation to fail.

I've opened a bug on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219973

Specifically I am using GNU guix and trying to compile with `ARCH=arm`
and `CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf`, in guix the include paths are
setup in a non typical way so if that is relevant to this error I am
happy to provide more detail, but hopefully just the output of make
showing `CC scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.o` instead of
`HOSTCC` like many other files in the scripts folder is sufficient to
reproduce and solve this issue.

Kind Regards,
Tadhg McDonald-Jensen

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Re: cross compile fails with GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 05:34:05PM -0400, Tadhg McDonald-Jensen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When cross compiling the linux kernel with
> `CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y` it tries to compile the plugin for
> the target platform instead of for the host machine causing the
> compilation to fail.
> 
> I've opened a bug on bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219973
> 
> Specifically I am using GNU guix and trying to compile with `ARCH=arm`
> and `CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf`, in guix the include paths are
> setup in a non typical way so if that is relevant to this error I am
> happy to provide more detail, but hopefully just the output of make
> showing `CC scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.o` instead of
> `HOSTCC` like many other files in the scripts folder is sufficient to
> reproduce and solve this issue.

If the kernel's build system can't find the right includes, that would
explain it. I'd check final depends line from scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig:

bool "GCC plugins"
        depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
        depends on CC_IS_GCC
        depends on $(success,test -e $(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)/include/plugin-version.h)

Which validates the Makefile's use of that:

GCC_PLUGINS_DIR = $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)


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Kees Cook

Re: cross compile fails with GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY

[Tadhg McDonald-Jensen]

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Ok when I tried to get a minimal reproducible case I set it up
incorrectly, when the flag is enabled and you run `make scripts` it
prints `HOSTCXX scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.so` and gives
this error:

$ make scripts
  HOSTCXX scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.so
In file included from
/.../gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-14.2.0/include/c++/bits/stl_pair.h:60,
                 from
/.../gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-14.2.0/include/c++/utility:69,
                 from
/.../gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-14.2.0-lib/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/14.2.0/plugin/include/system.h:228,
                 from
/.../gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-14.2.0-lib/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/14.2.0/plugin/include/gcc-plugin.h:28,
                 from scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:7,
                 from scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78:
/.../gcc-cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf-14.2.0/include/c++/type_traits:526:31:
error: missing binary operator before token "("
  526 | #if _GLIBCXX_USE_BUILTIN_TRAIT(__is_array)
      |                            ^

It is honestly giving me a massive wall of errors from that file and
then some other errors from other c++ include files, should the plugin
even be using `HOSTCXX` or should it just be using `HOSTCC`?

Tadhg

On 2025-04-04 1:32 p.m., Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 05:34:05PM -0400, Tadhg McDonald-Jensen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When cross compiling the linux kernel with
>> `CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y` it tries to compile the plugin for
>> the target platform instead of for the host machine causing the
>> compilation to fail.
>>
>> I've opened a bug on bugzilla:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219973
>>
>> Specifically I am using GNU guix and trying to compile with `ARCH=arm`
>> and `CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf`, in guix the include paths are
>> setup in a non typical way so if that is relevant to this error I am
>> happy to provide more detail, but hopefully just the output of make
>> showing `CC scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.o` instead of
>> `HOSTCC` like many other files in the scripts folder is sufficient to
>> reproduce and solve this issue.
> 
> If the kernel's build system can't find the right includes, that would
> explain it. I'd check final depends line from scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig:
> 
> bool "GCC plugins"
>         depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
>         depends on CC_IS_GCC
>         depends on $(success,test -e $(shell,$(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)/include/plugin-version.h)
> 
> Which validates the Makefile's use of that:
> 
> GCC_PLUGINS_DIR = $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=plugin)
> 
> 

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