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x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional

Clang does not tolerate the use of non-TLS symbols for the per-CPU stack
protector very well, and to work around this limitation, the symbol
passed via the -mstack-protector-guard-symbol= option is never defined
in C code, but only in the linker script, and it is exported from an
assembly file. This is necessary because Clang will fail to generate the
correct %GS based references in a compilation unit that includes a
non-TLS definition of the guard symbol being used to store the stack
cookie.

This problem is only triggered by symbol definitions, not by
declarations, but nonetheless, the declaration in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
is conditional on __GENKSYMS__ being #define'd, so that only genksyms
will observe it, but for ordinary compilation, it will be invisible.

This is causing problems with the genksyms alternative gendwarfksyms,
which does not #define __GENKSYMS__, does not observe the symbol
declaration, and therefore lacks the information it needs to version it.
Adding the #define creates problems in other places, so that is not a
straight-forward solution. So take the easy way out, and drop the
conditional on __GENKSYMS__, as this is not really needed to begin with.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320213238.4451-2-ardb@kernel.org

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Ard Biesheuvel and committed by
Ingo Molnar
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arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h
··· 20 20 extern void cmpxchg8b_emu(void); 21 21 #endif 22 22 23 - #if defined(__GENKSYMS__) && defined(CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR) 23 + #ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR 24 24 extern unsigned long __ref_stack_chk_guard; 25 25 #endif