On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 09:20:42PM +0000, Hans-Christian Egtvedt (hegtvedt) wrote: > Hello, > > latest stable release 4.4.286 does not build for me on ARM64 with > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y. > > The offending commit > > commit 69e450b170995e8a4e3eb94fb14c822553124870 > Author: Dan Li <ashimida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Sep 14 11:44:02 2021 > > arm64: Mark __stack_chk_guard as __ro_after_init > > The 4.4.y kernel does not have the ro_after_init section defined at all, > stable kernel 4.9.y is the first to have it. > > I do not have an overview of this feature, but it appears to have > started with commit > > commit c74ba8b3480da6ddaea17df2263ec09b869ac496 > Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Feb 17 23:41:15 2016 > > arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory > > -- > Best regards, Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt. Thank you for letting me know. I'll go revert this and do a new release with this fixed. greg k-h
