From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastian Blank Subject: [PATCH] xen: Disable stack protector for irq helper Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 20:30:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20091004183013.GA26101@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Xen-devel , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , the arch/x86 maintainers , Stable Kernel , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org The stack protector needs additional registers on x86_32, which are not saved in calls to the small paravirt interrupt handlers. This leads to early crashes as registers are overwritten and not saved by the caller as instructed. Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Makefile b/arch/x86/xen/Makefile index 3bb4fc2..ac19398 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Makefile @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_irq.o = -pg endif -# Make sure early boot has no stackprotector nostackp := $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) CFLAGS_enlighten.o := $(nostackp) +CFLAGS_irq.o := $(nostackp) CFLAGS_mmu.o := $(nostackp) obj-y := enlighten.o setup.o multicalls.o mmu.o irq.o \ -- Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference.