lib/string.c: Use freestanding environment

gcc can transform the loop in a naive implementation of memset/memcpy
etc into a call to the function itself.  This optimization is enabled by
-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns.

This has been the case for a while, but gcc-10.x enables this option at
-O2 rather than -O3 as in previous versions.

Add -ffreestanding, which implicitly disables this optimization with
gcc.  It is unclear whether clang performs such optimizations, but
hopefully it will also not do so in a freestanding environment.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56888
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index e290fc5707ea..a4a4c6864f51 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_debugobjects.o := n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_dynamic_debug.o := n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_fault-inject.o := n
 
+# string.o implements standard library functions like memset/memcpy etc.
+# Use -ffreestanding to ensure that the compiler does not try to "optimize"
+# them into calls to themselves.
+CFLAGS_string.o := -ffreestanding
+
 # Early boot use of cmdline, don't instrument it
 ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
 KASAN_SANITIZE_string.o := n
 
-CFLAGS_string.o := -fno-stack-protector
+CFLAGS_string.o += -fno-stack-protector
 endif
 
 # Used by KCSAN while enabled, avoid recursion.