[PATCH v3 01/13] stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE

Nicolas Schier nicolas.schier at linux.dev
Mon Jul 21 13:02:36 PDT 2025


On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 04:25:06PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
> that can support stack depth callbacks:
> 
> - Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
>   implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
>   stack depth callback support.
> - Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
>   but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
> - Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
>   for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
>   many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.
> 
> While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
> since that's the only place it is referenced from.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: <x86 at kernel.org>
> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars at kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-doc at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
> Cc: <kvmarm at lists.linux.dev>
> Cc: <linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org>
> Cc: <linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-efi at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-hardening at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-kbuild at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: <linux-kselftest at vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/Kconfig                                  |  4 +--
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                              |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |  2 +-
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |  2 +-
>  arch/s390/Kconfig                             |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                              |  2 +-
>  security/Kconfig.hardening                    | 36 ++++++++++---------
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile             |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/pi/Makefile                 |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile              |  2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/pi/Makefile                 |  2 +-
>  arch/riscv/purgatory/Makefile                 |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile                   |  2 +-

Did you miss arch/loongarch/Kconfig by accident?

$ git grep -Hrne ARCH_STACKLEAK
arch/loongarch/Kconfig:127:     select HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK

Kind regards,
Nicolas
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