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Christophe Leroy c3ff2a5193 powerpc/32: add stack protector support
This functionality was tentatively added in the past
(commit 6533b7c16e ("powerpc: Initial stack protector
(-fstack-protector) support")) but had to be reverted
(commit f2574030b0 ("powerpc: Revert the initial stack
protector support") because of GCC implementing it differently
whether it had been built with libc support or not.

Now, GCC offers the possibility to manually set the
stack-protector mode (global or tls) regardless of libc support.

This time, the patch selects HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR only if
-mstack-protector-guard=tls is supported by GCC.

On PPC32, as register r2 points to current task_struct at
all time, the stack_canary located inside task_struct can be
used directly by using the following GCC options:
-mstack-protector-guard=tls
-mstack-protector-guard-reg=r2
-mstack-protector-guard-offset=offsetof(struct task_struct, stack_canary))

The protector is disabled for prom_init and bootx_init as
it is too early to handle it properly.

 $ echo CORRUPT_STACK > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
[  134.943666] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: lkdtm_CORRUPT_STACK+0x64/0x64
[  134.943666]
[  134.955414] CPU: 0 PID: 283 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.18.0-s3k-dev-12143-ga3272be41209 #835
[  134.963380] Call Trace:
[  134.965860] [c6615d60] [c001f76c] panic+0x118/0x260 (unreliable)
[  134.971775] [c6615dc0] [c001f654] panic+0x0/0x260
[  134.976435] [c6615dd0] [c032c368] lkdtm_CORRUPT_STACK_STRONG+0x0/0x64
[  134.982769] [c6615e00] [ffffffff] 0xffffffff

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-10-03 15:40:03 +10:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.