There are two motivations.
`-fno-pic -fstack-protector -mstack-protector-guard=global` created
`__stack_chk_guard` is referenced directly on all ELF OSes except FreeBSD.
This patch allows referencing the symbol indirectly with
-fno-direct-access-external-data.
Some Linux kernel folks want
`-fno-pic -fstack-protector -mstack-protector-guard-reg=gs -mstack-protector-guard-symbol=__stack_chk_guard`
created `__stack_chk_guard` to be referenced directly, avoiding
R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX (even if the relocation may be optimized out by the linker).
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/60116
Why they need this isn't so clear to me.
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Add module flag "direct-access-external-data" and set the dso_local property of
the stack protector symbol. The module flag can benefit other LLVMCodeGen
synthesized symbols that are not represented in LLVM IR.
Nowadays, with `-fno-pic` being uncommon, ideally we should set
"direct-access-external-data" when it is true. However, doing so would require
~90 clang/test tests to be updated, which are too much.
As a compromise, we set "direct-access-external-data" only when it's different
from the implied default value.
Reviewed By: nickdesaulniers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D150841
When the stack has SVE objects, fixed-width objects are often better accessed
from the SP, instead of the FP, because part/all of the fixed-width offset
can be folded into the (non-scalable) addressing mode, where otherwise an
ADDVL would be required.
Reviewed By: david-arm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120738
Fix a couple of things that were causing stack protection to not work
correctly in functions that have scalable vectors on the stack:
* Use TypeSize when determining if accesses to a variable are
considered out-of-bounds so that the behaviour is correct for
scalable vectors.
* When stack protection is enabled move the stack protector location
to the top of the SVE locals, so that any overflow in them (or the
other locals which are below that) will be detected.
Fixes: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/51137
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111631
