[PATCH v2 0/5] Improvements of the stackleak gcc plugin

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Jun 24 09:54:49 EDT 2020


On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:33:25 +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> This is the v2 of the patch series with various improvements of the
> stackleak gcc plugin.
> 
> The first three patches disable unneeded gcc plugin instrumentation for
> some files.
> 
> The fourth patch is the main improvement. It eliminates an unwanted
> side-effect of kernel code instrumentation performed by stackleak gcc
> plugin. This patch is a deep reengineering of the idea described on
> grsecurity blog:
>   https://grsecurity.net/resolving_an_unfortunate_stackleak_interaction
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: vdso: Don't use gcc plugins for building vgettimeofday.c
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/e56404e8e475

Cheers,
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Will

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