linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 6/9] fortify: Split reporting and avoid passing string pointer

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:30:30 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] fortify: Split reporting and avoid passing string
 pointer

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023, at 13:19, kernel test robot wrote:
> 
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
> > | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> > | Link: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202304061930.4Au0PASm-lkp@intel.com/
> >
> > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >
> >>> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __fortify_panic
> >    >>> referenced by fortify-string.h:208 (include/linux/fortify-string.h:208)
> >    >>>               arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_ro.o:(fdt_stringlist_count)
> >    >>> referenced by fortify-string.h:208 (include/linux/fortify-string.h:208)
> >    >>>               arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_ro.o:(fdt_stringlist_search)
> >    >>> referenced by fortify-string.h:208 (include/linux/fortify-string.h:208)
> >    >>>               arch/arm/boot/compressed/fdt_ro.o:(fdt_stringlist_get)
> 
> I get a related build failure from the same commit:
> 
> arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c:157:6: error: no previous prototype for '__fortify_panic' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
>   157 | void __fortify_panic(const u8 reason, size_t avail, size_t size)

Whoops, thank you! This series got a refresh after you did the
missing-prototypes work and I missed this one. I've fixed it and
double-checked for any others. Hopefully this will be clean in the next
-next. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook