From dc1d05536f44cee16e46e86316e6718b2c0d8872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ndesaulniers@google.com" <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:00:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] start_kernel: Omit prevent_tail_call_optimization() for newer
toolchains
prevent_tail_call_optimization() was added in
commit a9a3ed1eff36 ("x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try")
to work around stack canaries getting inserted into functions that would
initialize the stack canary in the first place.
Now that we have no_stack_protector function attribute (gcc-11+,
clang-7+) and use it on start_kernel(), remove the call to
prevent_tail_call_optimization() such that we may one day remove it
outright.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412-no_stackp-v2-2-116f9fe4bbe7@google.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
---
init/main.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index c445c1fb19b95..c0b6499c31db3 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1088,7 +1088,13 @@ void start_kernel(void)
/* Do the rest non-__init'ed, we're now alive */
arch_call_rest_init();
+ /*
+ * Avoid stack canaries in callers of boot_init_stack_canary for gcc-10
+ * and older.
+ */
+#if !__has_attribute(__no_stack_protector__)
prevent_tail_call_optimization();
+#endif
}
/* Call all constructor functions linked into the kernel. */
--
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