[PATCH v3 1/3] gcc-plugins: Force full rebuild when plugins change

Kees Cook
2025-05-03T18:46:26Z

There was no dependency between the plugins changing and the rest of the
kernel being built. This could cause strange behaviors as instrumentation
could vary between targets depending on when they were built.

Generate a new header file, gcc-plugins.h, any time the GCC plugins
change. Include the header file in compiler-version.h when its associated
feature name, GCC_PLUGINS, is defined. This will be picked up by fixdep
and force rebuilds where needed.

Add a generic "touch" kbuild command, which will be used again in
a following patch. Add a "normalize_path" string helper to make the
"TOUCH" output less ugly.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
---
include/linux/compiler-version.h | 4 ++++
scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins | 2 +-
scripts/Makefile.lib | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile | 4 ++++
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-version.h b/include/linux/compiler-version.h
index 573fa85b6c0c..74ea11563ce3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-version.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-version.h
@@ -12,3 +12,7 @@
* and add dependency on include/config/CC_VERSION_TEXT, which is touched
* by Kconfig when the version string from the compiler changes.
*/
+
+#ifdef GCC_PLUGINS
+#include <generated/gcc-plugins.h>
+#endif
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
index 5b8a8378ca8a..e50dc931be49 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.gcc-plugins
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN

# All the plugin CFLAGS are collected here in case a build target needs to
# filter them out of the KBUILD_CFLAGS.
-GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y))
+GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y)) -DGCC_PLUGINS
export GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS

# Add the flags to the build!
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 2fe73cda0bdd..6fc2a82ee3bb 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -296,6 +296,19 @@ $(foreach m, $1, \
$(addprefix $(obj)/, $(call suffix-search, $(patsubst $(obj)/%,%,$m), $2, $3))))
endef

+# Remove ".." and "." from a path, without using "realpath"
+# Usage:
+# $(call normalize_path,path/to/../file)
+define normalize_path
+$(strip $(eval elements :=) \
+$(foreach elem,$(subst /, ,$1), \
+ $(if $(filter-out .,$(elem)), \
+ $(if $(filter ..,$(elem)), \
+ $(eval elements := $(wordlist 2,$(words $(elements)),x $(elements))), \
+ $(eval elements := $(elements) $(elem))))) \
+$(subst $(space),/,$(elements)))
+endef
+
# Build commands
# ===========================================================================
# These are shared by some Makefile.* files.
@@ -343,6 +356,11 @@ quiet_cmd_copy = COPY $@
$(obj)/%: $(src)/%_shipped
$(call cmd,copy)

+# Touch a file
+# ===========================================================================
+quiet_cmd_touch = TOUCH $(call normalize_path,$@)
+ cmd_touch = touch $@
+
# Commands useful for building a boot image
# ===========================================================================
#
diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
index 320afd3cf8e8..05b14aba41ef 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
@@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ quiet_cmd_plugin_cxx_o_c = HOSTCXX $@

$(plugin-objs): $(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c FORCE
$(call if_changed_dep,plugin_cxx_o_c)
+
+$(obj)/../../include/generated/gcc-plugins.h: $(plugin-single) $(plugin-multi) FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,touch)
+always-y += ../../include/generated/gcc-plugins.h
--
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