1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2 preferred-plugin-hostcc := $(if-success,[ $(gcc-version) -ge 40800 ],$(HOSTCXX),$(HOSTCC))
6 default "$(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-plugin.sh "$(preferred-plugin-hostcc)" "$(HOSTCXX)" "$(CC)")" if CC_IS_GCC
8 Host compiler used to build GCC plugins. This can be $(HOSTCXX),
9 $(HOSTCC), or a null string if GCC plugin is unsupported.
11 config HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
14 An arch should select this symbol if it supports building with
19 depends on HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS
20 depends on PLUGIN_HOSTCC != ""
23 GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the
24 compiler. They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis.
26 See Documentation/core-api/gcc-plugins.rst for details.
29 depends on GCC_PLUGINS
31 config GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY
32 bool "Compute the cyclomatic complexity of a function" if EXPERT
33 depends on !COMPILE_TEST # too noisy
35 The complexity M of a function's control flow graph is defined as:
39 E = the number of edges
40 N = the number of nodes
41 P = the number of connected components (exit nodes).
43 Enabling this plugin reports the complexity to stderr during the
44 build. It mainly serves as a simple example of how to create a
45 gcc plugin for the kernel.
47 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
50 This plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of
51 basic blocks. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from
52 gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
53 by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
55 config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
56 bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
58 By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
59 extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
60 program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
61 there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
62 is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
65 Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
68 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
69 * https://grsecurity.net/
70 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
72 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
73 bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
74 select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
76 If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
77 function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
78 __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
79 marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
80 This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
81 exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
84 Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
85 slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
86 tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
87 source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
89 The seed used for compilation is located at
90 scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h. It remains after
91 a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
92 the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
95 Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
97 This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
98 * https://grsecurity.net/
99 * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
101 config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
102 bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
103 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
104 depends on !COMPILE_TEST # do not reduce test coverage
106 If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
107 best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
108 groups of elements. It will further not randomize bitfields
109 in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
110 at the cost of weakened randomization.
112 config GCC_PLUGIN_ARM_SSP_PER_TASK
114 depends on GCC_PLUGINS && ARM