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From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/16] x86/purgatory: Disable CFI
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:02:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOd=OvR8iZogXhMxkbt5qT7jbhaARgk5NsCzhpkjoZ7yy5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210914191045.2234020-12-samitolvanen@google.com>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:11 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
>
> Disable CONFIG_CFI_CLANG for the stand-alone purgatory.ro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

I kind of prefer the existing convention that has explicit guards on
specific configs (ie. CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR,
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG, CONFIG_RETPOLINE); it's more obvious
which configs may introduce which flags that are problematic. This
patch is ok as is, but it kind of makes this Makefile more
inconsistent.  I would prefer we had the explicit checks.

Does CFI actually do any instrumentation in these object files? I
guess issues in purgatory cause silent/hard to debug kexec failures?

> ---
>  arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
> index 95ea17a9d20c..ed46ad780130 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
>  # These are adjustments to the compiler flags used for objects that
>  # make up the standalone purgatory.ro
>
> -PURGATORY_CFLAGS_REMOVE := -mcmodel=kernel
> +PURGATORY_CFLAGS_REMOVE := -mcmodel=kernel $(CC_FLAGS_CFI)
>  PURGATORY_CFLAGS := -mcmodel=large -ffreestanding -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -g0
>  PURGATORY_CFLAGS += $(DISABLE_STACKLEAK_PLUGIN) -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
>  PURGATORY_CFLAGS += -fno-stack-protector
> --
> 2.33.0.309.g3052b89438-goog
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-14 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-14 19:10 [PATCH v3 00/16] x86: Add support for Clang CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] objtool: Add CONFIG_CFI_CLANG support Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:29   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 21:01     ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] objtool: Add ASM_STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] linkage: Add DECLARE_ASM_FUNC_SYMBOL Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] cfi: Add DEFINE_CFI_IMMEDIATE_RETURN_STUB Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:36   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 20:32     ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] tracepoint: Exclude tp_stub_func from CFI checking Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:39   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] ftrace: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] lkdtm: Disable UNSET_SMEP with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:30   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] lkdtm: Use an opaque type for lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:32   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] x86: Use an opaque type for functions not callable from C Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:33   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] x86/extable: Mark handlers __cficanonical Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:37   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 20:38     ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] x86/purgatory: Disable CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 20:02   ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2021-09-14 20:30     ` Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 22:31       ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-15  6:24         ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] x86, relocs: Ignore __typeid__ relocations Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] x86, module: " Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] x86, cpu: Use LTO for cpu.c with CFI Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:44   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:46   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] x86, kprobes: Fix optprobe_template_func type mismatch Sami Tolvanen
2021-09-14 19:40   ` Kees Cook
2021-09-14 19:10 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] x86, build: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected Sami Tolvanen

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