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Landed in mainline as f02003c860d9 on 2021-09-25.

[PATCH] hardening: Default to INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO if CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO

From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-09-14 10:28:52
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: kernel hardening (not covered by other areas), security subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Kees Cook, Paul Moore, James Morris, "Serge E. Hallyn", Linus Torvalds

CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO requires a supported set of compiler options
distinct from those needed by CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN, Fix up
the Kconfig dependency for INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO to test for the former
instead of the latter, as these are the options passed by the top-level
Makefile.

Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: dcb7c0b9461c ("hardening: Clarify Kconfig text for auto-var-init")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---

I just noticed this while reading the code and I suspect it doesn't really
matter in practice.

 security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index 90cbaff86e13..341e2fdcba94 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ choice
 	prompt "Initialize kernel stack variables at function entry"
 	default GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL if COMPILE_TEST && GCC_PLUGINS
 	default INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN if COMPILE_TEST && CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN
-	default INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO if CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN
+	default INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO if CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO
 	default INIT_STACK_NONE
 	help
 	  This option enables initialization of stack variables at
-- 
2.33.0.309.g3052b89438-goog
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