On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:05:29 +0100
Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 03:14:39PM +0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> > The initial implementation of the stack protector just busy looped
> > in __stack_chk_fail in order to reduce the amount of code being
> > executed after the stack has been compromised because of a lack of
> > firmware memory protections. With future firmware implementations
> > incorporating memory protections such as W^X, call in to boot services
> > when an error occurs in order to log a message to the console before
> > automatically rebooting the machine.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Coulson <chris.coul...@canonical.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
I believe this is causing a build failure for arm64-efi with gcc 10.3.0, and
suspect this failure should occur on any gcc.
/builds/grub/grub-core/kern/efi/init.c:35:3: error: cannot initialize array of
‘short unsigned int’ from a string literal with type array of ‘unsigned int’
35 | L"* GRUB: STACK SMASHING DETECTED!!! *\r\n"
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[3]: *** [Makefile:36566: kern/efi/kernel_exec-init.o] Error 1
Glenn
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