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From: Daniele Buono <dbuono@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] configure: add flag to enable SafeStack
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:48:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428c9546-ce0c-1213-63d3-d53d9ac9dddc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200527111212.GC29137@stefanha-x1.localdomain>

Hi Stefan, a quick clarification on configure:

right now, in configure, there's
* "Advanced Options (experts only)"
which usually don't have both enable and disable for each option, and
* "Optional features, enabled with --enable-FEATURE and
disabled with --disable-FEATURE, default is enabled if available:"

How do you think SafeStack should be classified?
* If we do it as Advanced option, we should probably force it disabled
unless --enable-safe-stack is provided. In this case
--disable-safe-stack is not really necessary.
* If we do it as optional feature, I have two ways to handle the default:
1. enable/disable based on the compilation flags given to configure
2. enable every time the provided compiler supports it

On 5/27/2020 7:12 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 11:24:46AM -0400, Daniele Buono wrote:
>> I would feel more confident by adding another check in configure to make
>> sure that the user didn't enable SafeStack manually through other means,
>> like manually setting the option through extra_cflags.
>> What do you think?
> 
> Sure, a compile_prog call could check if SafeStack is enable when it
> shouldn't be.
> 
> This can be done together with a --disable option.
> 
> Stefan
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 19:44 [PATCH 0/4] Add support for SafeStack Daniele Buono
2020-04-29 19:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] coroutine: support SafeStack in ucontext backend Daniele Buono
2020-05-21  9:44   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-22 15:18     ` Daniele Buono
2020-05-27 10:34       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-04-29 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] coroutine: Add check for SafeStack in sigalstack Daniele Buono
2020-05-04 14:56   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-21  9:49   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-27 17:56     ` Daniele Buono
2020-04-29 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] configure: add flag to enable SafeStack Daniele Buono
2020-05-21  9:52   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-22 15:24     ` Daniele Buono
2020-05-27 11:12       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-27 13:48         ` Daniele Buono [this message]
2020-04-29 19:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] check-block: Enable iotests with SafeStack Daniele Buono
2020-05-21  9:59   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-22 15:35     ` Daniele Buono
2020-05-27 11:13       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-04 14:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] Add support for SafeStack Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-05 13:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-05 13:31   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-05 13:56     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-13 14:48       ` Daniele Buono
2020-05-21 10:00         ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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