This series prepares the powerpc Kconfig and Kbuild files for clang's per-task stack protector support. clang requires '-mstack-protector-guard-offset' to always be passed with the other '-mstack-protector-guard' flags, which does not always happen with the powerpc implementation, unlike arm, arm64, and riscv implementations. This series brings powerpc in line with those other architectures, which allows clang's support to work right away when it is merged. Additionally, there is one other fix needed for the Kconfig test to work correctly when targeting 32-bit.
I have tested this series in QEMU against LKDTM's REPORT_STACK_CANARY with ppc64le_guest_defconfig and pmac32_defconfig built with a toolchain that contains Keith's in-progress pull request, which should land for LLVM 20:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110928
--- Changes in v2: - Combined patch 1 and 3, as they are fixing the same test for similar reasons; adjust commit message accordingly (Christophe) - Moved stack protector guard flags on one line in Makefile (Christophe) - Add 'Cc: stable' targeting 6.1 and newer for the sake of simplicity, as it is the oldest stable release where this series applies cleanly (folks who want it on earlier releases can request or perform a backport separately). - Pick up Keith's Reviewed-by and Tested-by on both patches. - Add a blurb to commit message of patch 1 explaining why clang's register selection behavior differs from GCC. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241007-powerpc-fix-stackprotector-test-clang-v1-...
--- Nathan Chancellor (2): powerpc: Fix stack protector Kconfig test for clang powerpc: Adjust adding stack protector flags to KBUILD_CLAGS for clang
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 ++-- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 13 ++++--------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 8cf0b93919e13d1e8d4466eb4080a4c4d9d66d7b change-id: 20241004-powerpc-fix-stackprotector-test-clang-84e67ed82f62
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