[PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Prepare for clang's per-task stack protector support

Nathan Chancellor nathan at kernel.org
Thu Oct 10 06:26:07 AEDT 2024


This series prepares the powerpc Kconfig and Kbuild files for clang's
per-task stack protector support. clang requires
'-mstack-protector-guard-offset' to always be passed with the other
'-mstack-protector-guard' flags, which does not always happen with the
powerpc implementation, unlike arm, arm64, and riscv implementations.
This series brings powerpc in line with those other architectures, which
allows clang's support to work right away when it is merged.
Additionally, there is one other fix needed for the Kconfig test to work
correctly when targeting 32-bit.

I have tested this series in QEMU against LKDTM's REPORT_STACK_CANARY
with ppc64le_guest_defconfig and pmac32_defconfig built with a toolchain
that contains Keith's in-progress pull request, which should land for
LLVM 20:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110928

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Changes in v2:
- Combined patch 1 and 3, as they are fixing the same test for similar
  reasons; adjust commit message accordingly (Christophe)
- Moved stack protector guard flags on one line in Makefile (Christophe)
- Add 'Cc: stable' targeting 6.1 and newer for the sake of simplicity,
  as it is the oldest stable release where this series applies cleanly
  (folks who want it on earlier releases can request or perform a
  backport separately).
- Pick up Keith's Reviewed-by and Tested-by on both patches.
- Add a blurb to commit message of patch 1 explaining why clang's
  register selection behavior differs from GCC.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241007-powerpc-fix-stackprotector-test-clang-v1-0-08c15b2694e4@kernel.org

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Nathan Chancellor (2):
      powerpc: Fix stack protector Kconfig test for clang
      powerpc: Adjust adding stack protector flags to KBUILD_CLAGS for clang

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig  |  4 ++--
 arch/powerpc/Makefile | 13 ++++---------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 8cf0b93919e13d1e8d4466eb4080a4c4d9d66d7b
change-id: 20241004-powerpc-fix-stackprotector-test-clang-84e67ed82f62

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>



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