On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > +/* > + * Do not use this anywhere else in the kernel. This is used here because > + * it provides an arch-agnostic way to grow the stack with correct > + * alignment. Also, since this use is being explicitly masked to a max of > + * 10 bits, stack-clash style attacks are unlikely. For more details see > + * "VLAs" in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst > + */ > +void *__builtin_alloca(size_t size); > + > +#define add_random_kstack_offset() do { \ > + if (static_branch_maybe(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT, \ > + &randomize_kstack_offset)) { \ > + u32 offset = this_cpu_read(kstack_offset); \ > + char *ptr = __builtin_alloca(offset & 0x3FF); \ > + asm volatile("" : "=m"(*ptr)); \ Is this asm() a homebrew OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(*ptr)? If the asm constraints generate metter code, could we add those as alternative constraints in OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() ? Mark.