random: vDSO: avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved parameter

After a recent change in LLVM [1], builds with the random vDSO
implementation, such as PowerPC and RISC-V, fail when checking the vDSO:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported
  arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported

memset() is now generated when zeroing params->reserved for some builds
because LLVM has an optimization (now run in more instances) that can
recognize at compile time when it is assigning a static value to a
contiguous area of memory and turn that into a call to memset(). Both
clang and GCC assume memset() is always available [2].

Clang has an internal fiddly hook, -max-store-memset, which we can set
to a high number, to disable generating out of line memset calls [3].
Similarly, GCC has -finline-stringops=memset to do the same [4], should
this issue ever hit future version of GCC. While these options wouldn't
make sense for normal kernel code, it is fine for the extremely limited
and intentionally compact vDSO code.

Link: 90cebef141 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-16.2.0/gcc/Standards.html#index-ffreestanding [2]
Link: b28eeb28be [3]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-finline-stringops [4]
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2183
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
This commit is contained in:
Nathan Chancellor 2026-09-25 22:46:32 +01:00 committed by Jason A. Donenfeld
parent 703749b069
commit eb13a1ff27
7 changed files with 11 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ CC_FLAGS_REMOVE_VDSO := $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os $(CC_FLAGS_SCS) \
$(CC_FLAGS_LTO) $(CC_FLAGS_CFI) \
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
CC_FLAGS_ADD_VDSO := -O2 -mcmodel=tiny -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
CC_FLAGS_ADD_VDSO := -O2 -mcmodel=tiny -fasynchronous-unwind-tables $(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_REMOVE_VDSO)
CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgetrandom.o = $(CC_FLAGS_REMOVE_VDSO)

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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ccflags-vdso := \
$(filter -m64,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
$(filter -march=%,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
$(filter -m%-float,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) \
$(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET) \
$(CLANG_FLAGS) \
-D__VDSO__

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@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ ccflags-y := -fno-common -fno-builtin -DBUILD_VDSO
ccflags-y += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
ccflags-y += $(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
ccflags-y += -ffreestanding -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
ccflags-remove-y := $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
ldflags-y := -Wl,--hash-style=both -nostdlib -shared -z noexecstack $(CLANG_FLAGS)

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@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ endif
ccflags-y := -fno-stack-protector
ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
ccflags-y += -fno-builtin
ccflags-y += $(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
ccflags-y += $(KBUILD_BASE_ISA)$(CFI_MARCH)
ccflags-y += $(CFI_FULL)
asflags-y += $(KBUILD_BASE_ISA)$(CFI_MARCH)

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@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO := $(filter-out -munaligned-symbols,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO := $(filter-out -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO += -fPIC -fno-common -fno-builtin -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO += -fno-stack-protector $(DISABLE_KSTACK_ERASE)
KBUILD_CFLAGS_VDSO += $(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
ldflags-y := -shared -soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
--hash-style=both --build-id=sha1 \
$(call ld-option, --eh-frame-hdr) -T

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ vobjs-$(CONFIG_X86_SGX) += vsgx.o
vobjs-$(CONFIG_FUTEX_ROBUST_UNLOCK) += vfutex.o
# Compilation flags
flags-y := -DBUILD_VDSO64 -m64 -mcmodel=small
flags-y := -DBUILD_VDSO64 -m64 -mcmodel=small $(CONFIG_CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET)
# The location of this include matters!
include $(src)/../common/Makefile.include

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@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ config CC_HAS_ALLOC_TOKEN
config CC_HAS_MULTIDIMENSIONAL_NONSTRING
def_bool $(success,echo 'char tag[][4] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = { };' | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -x c - -c -o /dev/null -Werror)
config CC_OPT_INLINE_MEMSET
string
default "-finline-stringops=memset" if $(cc-option,-finline-stringops=memset)
default "-mllvm -max-store-memset=4294967294" if $(cc-option,-mllvm -max-store-memset=4294967294)
config LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY
# ld.lld prior to 21.0.0 did not support KEEP within an overlay description
# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130661