Commit a3ca86aea507904148870946d599e07a340b39bf

Authored by Eugene Teo
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 4a21b8cb35

Add '-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks' to gcc CFLAGS

Turning on this flag could prevent the compiler from optimising away
some "useless" checks for null pointers.  Such bugs can sometimes become
exploitable at compile time because of the -O2 optimisation.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html

An example that clearly shows this 'problem' is commit 6bf67672.

 static void __devexit agnx_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
     struct ieee80211_hw *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
-    struct agnx_priv *priv = dev->priv;
+    struct agnx_priv *priv;
     AGNX_TRACE;

     if (!dev)
         return;
+    priv = dev->priv;

By reverting this patch, and compile it with and without
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks flag, we can see that the check for dev
is compiled away.

    call    printk  #
-   testq   %r12, %r12  # dev
-   je  .L94    #,
    movq    %r12, %rdi  # dev,

Clearly the 'fix' is to stop using dev before it is tested, but building
with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks flag at least makes it harder to
abuse.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wang Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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343 343 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
344 344 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
345 345 -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
346   - -Wno-format-security
  346 + -Wno-format-security \
  347 + -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
347 348 KBUILD_AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
348 349  
349 350 # Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)