Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: Disable GCC plugins for compile test builds

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 01:26:34PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:57:32 PDT (-0700), broonie@kernel.org wrote:
> > In current mainline x86_64 allmodconfig builds done with tuxmake GCC 13
> > and GCC 14 toolchains (which are Debian ones packaged up into containers)
> > generate ICEs in landlock:
> > 
> > Event                            | Plugins
> > PLUGIN_FINISH_TYPE               | randomize_layout_plugin
> > PLUGIN_FINISH_DECL               | randomize_layout_plugin
> > PLUGIN_ATTRIBUTES                | latent_entropy_plugin randomize_layout_plugin
> > PLUGIN_START_UNIT                | latent_entropy_plugin stackleak_plugin
> > PLUGIN_ALL_IPA_PASSES_START      | randomize_layout_plugin
> > /build/stage/linux/security/landlock/fs.c: In function ‘hook_file_ioctl_common’:
> > /build/stage/linux/security/landlock/fs.c:1745:61: internal compiler error: in c
> > ount_type_elements, at expr.cc:7075
> >  1745 |                         .u.op = &(struct lsm_ioctlop_audit) {
> >       |                                                             ^
> > 
> > Arnd bisected this to c56f649646ec ("landlock: Log mount-related
> > denials") but that commit is fairly obviously not really at fault here,
> > most likely this is an issue in the plugin.  Given how disruptive having
> > key configs like this failing let's disable the plugins for compile test
> > builds until a fix is found.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
> > index e383cda05367..29b03c136165 100644
> > --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
> > +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
> > 
> >  menuconfig GCC_PLUGINS
> >  	bool "GCC plugins"
> > +	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
> >  	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)
> > 
> > ---
> > base-commit: 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8
> > change-id: 20250407-kbuild-disable-gcc-plugins-8701aa609cb3
> > 
> > Best regards,
> 
> This one's been biting me too.  It manifests for me on gcc-12 and gcc-13
> (both locally built toolchains off the release branches, cross compiling for
> RISC-V).
> 
> Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

Thanks! This is fixed differently in -next:

https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-linus/hardening&id=1ded828affa35f4b216e99f53d8d031a392f2b0a

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Kees Cook