Re: [PATCH] arm64: disable -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack for big-endian

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 11:24:13 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:39:46PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> clang-11 and earlier do not support -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack
> in combination with -mbig-endian, but the Kconfig check does not
> pass the endianess flag, so building a big-endian kernel with
> this fails at build time:
>
> clang: error: unsupported option '-fsanitize=shadow-call-stack' for target 'aarch64_be-unknown-linux'
>
> Change the Kconfig check to let Kconfig figure this out earlier
> and prevent the broken configuration. I assume this is a bug
> in clang that needs to be fixed, but we also have to work
> around existing releases.
>
> Fixes: 5287569a790d ("arm64: Implement Shadow Call Stack")
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46076
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

I suspect this is similar to the patchable-function-entry issue, and
this is an oversight that we'd rather fix toolchain side.

Nick, Fangrui, thoughts?

Mark.

> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index a82441d6dc36..692e1575a6c8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1031,7 +1031,9 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
>
> # Supported by clang >= 7.0
> config CC_HAVE_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> - def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack -ffixed-x18)
> + bool
> + default $(cc-option, -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack -ffixed-x18 -mbig-endian) if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> + default $(cc-option, -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack -ffixed-x18 -mlittle-endian) if !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>
> config SECCOMP
> bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
> --
> 2.26.2
>
>
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