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Kees Cook 431a380f93 kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code
When building with CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE=y and CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y,
the compressed boot environment encounters an undefined symbol error:

    ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth
    >>> referenced by atags_to_fdt.c:135

This occurs because the compiler instruments the atags_to_fdt() function
with sanitizer coverage calls, but the minimal compressed boot environment
lacks access to sanitizer runtime support.

The compressed boot environment already disables stack protector with
-fno-stack-protector. Similarly disable sanitizer coverage by adding
$(DISABLE_KSTACK_ERASE) to the general compiler flags (and remove it
from the one place it was noticed before), which contains the appropriate
flags to prevent sanitizer instrumentation.

This follows the same pattern used in other early boot contexts where
sanitizer runtime support is unavailable.

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYtBk8qnpWvoaFwymCx5s5i-5KXtPGpmf=_+UKJddCOnLA@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250726004313.GA3650901@ax162
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-07-26 14:27:33 -07:00
arch kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code 2025-07-26 14:27:33 -07:00
block block-6.16-20250614 2025-06-14 09:25:22 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: hkdf - move to late_initcall 2025-06-11 10:59:45 +08:00
Documentation stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE 2025-07-21 21:35:01 -07:00
drivers arm: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches 2025-07-21 21:43:39 -07:00
fs stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE 2025-07-21 21:35:01 -07:00
include x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches 2025-07-24 16:55:11 -07:00
init init: fix build warnings about export.h 2025-06-11 22:42:36 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.16-20250614 2025-06-14 08:44:54 -07:00
ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches 2025-07-24 16:55:11 -07:00
lib stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE 2025-07-21 21:35:01 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm 9 hotfixes. 3 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-06-14 08:18:09 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-06-12 09:50:36 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for v6.16 2025-06-14 08:38:34 -07:00
samples - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
scripts stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS 2025-07-21 21:40:57 -07:00
security stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth 2025-07-21 21:40:39 -07:00
sound treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of() 2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
tools stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth 2025-07-21 21:40:39 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD 2025-05-28 06:29:17 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-06-12 09:50:36 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Update Christoph's Email address and make it consistent 2025-05-12 23:50:31 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS 2025-07-21 21:40:57 -07:00
Makefile stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS 2025-07-21 21:40:57 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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 reStructuredText markup notation.

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.