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author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2019-04-10 08:48:31 -0700 |
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committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2019-04-24 14:00:56 -0700 |
commit | 709a972efb01efaeb97cad1adc87fe400119c8ab (patch) | |
tree | 395292ab51f012c21b436c404811e810bc863b4d /Makefile | |
parent | b6a6a3772d20b8552e703bb2a651760a22167cf6 (diff) | |
download | lwn-709a972efb01efaeb97cad1adc87fe400119c8ab.tar.gz lwn-709a972efb01efaeb97cad1adc87fe400119c8ab.zip |
security: Implement Clang's stack initialization
CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL turns on stack initialization based on
-ftrivial-auto-var-init in Clang builds, which has greater coverage
than CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL.
-ftrivial-auto-var-init Clang option provides trivial initializers for
uninitialized local variables, variable fields and padding.
It has three possible values:
pattern - uninitialized locals are filled with a fixed pattern
(mostly 0xAA on 64-bit platforms, see https://reviews.llvm.org/D54604
for more details, but 0x000000AA for 32-bit pointers) likely to cause
crashes when uninitialized value is used;
zero (it's still debated whether this flag makes it to the official
Clang release) - uninitialized locals are filled with zeroes;
uninitialized (default) - uninitialized locals are left intact.
This patch uses only the "pattern" mode when CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL is
enabled.
Developers have the possibility to opt-out of this feature on a
per-variable basis by using __attribute__((uninitialized)), but such
use should be well justified in comments.
Co-developed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Makefile')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -745,6 +745,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fomit-frame-pointer endif endif +# Initialize all stack variables with a pattern, if desired. +ifdef CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern +endif + DEBUG_CFLAGS := $(call cc-option, -fno-var-tracking-assignments) ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO |