x86/build: Unilaterally disable -fcf-protection
authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Tue, 12 May 2020 18:18:43 +0000 (19:18 +0100)
committerAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Wed, 13 May 2020 19:33:42 +0000 (20:33 +0100)
Xen doesn't support CET-IBT yet.  At a minimum, logic is required to enable it
for supervisor use, but the livepatch functionality needs to learn not to
overwrite ENDBR64 instructions.

Furthermore, Ubuntu enables -fcf-protection by default, along with a buggy
version of GCC-9 which objects to it in combination with
-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern (Fixed in GCC 10, 9.4).

Various objects (Xen boot path, Rombios 32 stubs) require .text to be at the
beginning of the object.  These paths explode when .note.gnu.properties gets
put ahead of .text and we end up executing the notes data.

Disable -fcf-protection for all embedded objects.

Reported-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Config.mk

index b0f16680f336c9cd5a522aafb69f4953080bb373..7d556aed3011ef83042d982a6917ed372a3a6b6e 100644 (file)
--- a/Config.mk
+++ b/Config.mk
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ APPEND_CFLAGS += $(foreach i, $(APPEND_INCLUDES), -I$(i))
 
 EMBEDDED_EXTRA_CFLAGS := -nopie -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-protector-all
 EMBEDDED_EXTRA_CFLAGS += -fno-exceptions -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
+EMBEDDED_EXTRA_CFLAGS += -fcf-protection=none
 
 XEN_EXTFILES_URL ?= http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-extfiles
 # All the files at that location were downloaded from elsewhere on