[PATCH 2/5] arm: KVM: Do not use stack-protector to compile HYP code
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 2 06:30:38 PDT 2017
We like living dangerously. Nothing explicitely forbids stack-protector
to be used in the HYP code, while distributions routinely compile their
kernel with it. We're just lucky that no code actually triggers the
instrumentation.
Let's not try our luck for much longer, and disable stack-protector
for code living at HYP.
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
index 3023bb530edf..8679405b0b2b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
# Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part
#
+ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector
+
KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.o
--
2.11.0
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