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kbuild: add '-fno-stack-check' to kernel build options

It appears that hardened gentoo enables "-fstack-check" by default for
gcc.

That doesn't work _at_all_ for the kernel, because the kernel stack
doesn't act like a user stack at all: it's much smaller, and it doesn't
auto-expand on use. So the extra "probe one page below the stack" code
generated by -fstack-check just breaks the kernel in horrible ways,
causing infinite double faults etc.

[ I have to say, that the particular code gcc generates looks very
stupid even for user space where it works, but that's a separate
issue. ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me>
Reported-and-tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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··· 789 789 # disable invalid "can't wrap" optimizations for signed / pointers 790 790 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-strict-overflow) 791 791 792 + # Make sure -fstack-check isn't enabled (like gentoo apparently did) 793 + KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-stack-check,) 794 + 792 795 # conserve stack if available 793 796 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fconserve-stack) 794 797