[PATCH v3 1/2] initmem: introduce CONFIG_INIT_ALL_MEMORY and CONFIG_INIT_ALL_STACK

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:38 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> > +config INIT_ALL_STACK
> > +       bool "Initialize all stack"
> > +       depends on INIT_ALL_MEMORY
> > +       depends on CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT || (HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS && PLUGIN_HOSTCC != "")
> > +       select GCC_PLUGINS if !CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT
> > +       select GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK if !CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT
> > +       select GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL if !CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT
> > +       default y
> > +       help
> > +         Initialize uninitialized stack data with a fixed pattern
> > +         (0x00 in GCC, 0xAA in Clang).
> > +
>
> I am not sure about the benefit of these umbrella CONFIGs
> since these make 'depends on' and 'select' complicated.
> I will leave it to Kees, though.

Yeah, I think this could use some more cleanup to get a single config
that represents that if gcc plugins are available (instead of having
it split across two configs now). Additionally I think this needs
refactoring against the current menu choices for
GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK. Let me send a proposed patch in a few hours...

-- 
Kees Cook