[PATCH v2 2/2] hardening: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
Kees Cook
kees at kernel.org
Sat Mar 8 04:29:26 UTC 2025
The i386 regparm bug exposed with FORTIFY_SOURCE with Clang was fixed
in Clang 16[1].
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c167c0a4dcdb998affb2756ce76903a12f7d8ca5 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index d25ed25fb7d9..917459d1ad40 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y)
include $(srctree)/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
- ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),y)
+ ifneq ($(call clang-min-version, 160000),y)
# temporary until string.h is fixed
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -ffreestanding
endif
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 23ffb0d7c845..c17366ce8224 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ config FORTIFY_SOURCE
bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53645
- depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || !X86_32
+ depends on !X86_32 || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 160000
help
Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions
where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes.
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2.34.1
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