Re: [PATCH] tools: bpf: Disable stack protector

[Yonghong Song]

On 1/22/23 8:28 PM, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:34 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 1/18/23 11:28 AM, Eduard Zingerman wrote:
> > > While working on clang patch to disable stack protector
> > > for BPF target I've noticed that there is an option to
> > > disable default configuration file altogether [1]:
> > >
> > >     --no-default-config
> > >
> > > Should we consider it instead of -fno-stack-protector
> > > to shield ourselves from any potential distro-specific
> > > changes?
> >
> > Peter, could you help check whether adding --no-default-config works
> > in your environment or not?
> >
> > > [1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#cmdoption-clang-no-default-config
>
> I guess I could, but I'm not convinced that's the right thing to do.
> Ideally problems with distro-specific configs would cause loud
> failures (like this one) and result in fixes like the changes being
> made to upstream clang/gcc.
> Simply unconditionally disabling distro configs seems to be the wrong
> way to approach this and makes it less likely that future problems
> will be reported in the first place.

Thanks for confirming. Eduard has implemented a proper fix in clang
(https://reviews.llvm.org/D142046) which will warn if -fstack-protector
is enabled. In gentoo case, since -fno-stack-protector is appended to
compilation flags, no warning will be issued, so we are all good here.