On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:08:16PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:53:28AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, the boot code *does* still uses > > fortify-string.h. It lets us both catch mistakes we can discover at > > compile and will catch egregious runtime mistakes, though the reporting > > is much simpler in the boot code. > > From where I'm standing, we're not catching anything in the > decompressor: > > $ objdump -D arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux | grep __fortify_panic > 0000000001bec250 <__fortify_panic>: > $ > > Sure, in vmlinux proper (allmodconfig) we do: > > objdump -D vmlinux | grep __fortify_panic | wc -l > 1417 > > but not in the decompressor which is special anyway. > > So we can just as well disable CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE in the decompressor > and not do silly prototypes.
Please do not do this. It still benefits from compile-time sanity checking. -- Kees Cook
