From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: zhiquan_li@163.com,seanjc@google.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:04:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026020754-payback-platonic-6ee5@gregkh> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e396a74222654486d6ab45dca5d0c54c408b8b91
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026020754-payback-platonic-6ee5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From e396a74222654486d6ab45dca5d0c54c408b8b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhiquan Li <zhiquan_li@163.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:35:50 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some
unpredictable test failures
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>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
index ba5c2b643efa..d45bf4ccb3bf 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ LINUX_TOOL_INCLUDE = $(top_srcdir)/tools/include
LINUX_TOOL_ARCH_INCLUDE = $(top_srcdir)/tools/arch/$(ARCH)/include
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 \
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2026-02-07 15:04 gregkh [this message]
2026-02-07 20:27 ` [PATCH 6.12.y] KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures Sasha Levin
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