On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:10:45PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > Hello Sascha, > > On 24.02.21 09:49, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:24:26AM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote: > >> This ports over Linux commit 3ce120b16cc5 ("kbuild: add > >> '-fno-stack-check' to kernel build options"): > >> > >> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> kbuild: add '-fno-stack-check' to kernel build options > >> > >> It appears that hardened gentoo enables "-fstack-check" by default for > >> gcc. > >> > >> That doesn't work _at_all_ for the kernel, because the kernel stack > >> doesn't act like a user stack at all: it's much smaller, and it doesn't > >> auto-expand on use. So the extra "probe one page below the stack" code > >> generated by -fstack-check just breaks the kernel in horrible ways, > >> causing infinite double faults etc. > >> > >> [ I have to say, that the particular code gcc generates looks very > >> stupid even for user space where it works, but that's a separate > >> issue. ] > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> I am porting it, because it may become more acute with the incoming > >> support for multiple stacks (via initjmp). > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@xxxxxx> > >> --- > > > > Applied, thanks > > Can't find both patches in next. They should be there now. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox