RFR : JDK-8032045 : (m/l) Enable compiler and linker safety switches for debug builds

[Mike Duigou]

I have updated the patch to respond to Magnus's feedback and to accommodate intervening changes to the configure and hotspot make files. 

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032045
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8032045/3/webrev/

This version is, hopefully, almost ready to be pushed.

Mike

On Feb 20 2014, at 15:43 , Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello all;
> 
> This issue is a followon to JDK-8030350 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030350) which enhanced the compiler warnings used for compiling native code. The proposed changes principally impact the Linux platform. 
> 
> While 8030350 was focused on compiler warnings which did not impact code generation, this changeset will, for some configurations, change the native code generated and likely change performance. These proposed option changes prevent specific types of relocation table, stack and heap memory corruption in native code. Preventing these types of memory corruption may be useful for finding certain kinds of bugs though and do provide some minimal additional protections against malicious attacks. They aren't, by any means, a substitute for following appropriate secure coding guidelines.
> 
> The rationale behind the implementation is as follows. For release builds during the initial phase of JDK 9 I would like to enable only compile time checks. This ends up being similar to the warnings in JDK-8030350. These options have no runtime impact on footprint or performance and very minimal additional compile time cost while providing value. **Release builds are not expected to see any performance or footprint change as a result of this changeset**
> 
> For fast debug builds we can enable linker protections (relro) and static compile time bounds checks (FORTIFY_SOURCE=1). FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 might be moved to the production builds as well because it has no runtime cost or executable size cost.
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> For slow debug builds we can enable full linker protection (at a potential cost in startup time), runtime bounds checks and stack protection (FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fprotect-stack-all). We will likely enable -fprotect-stack-strong when available in GCC 4.9
> 
> The basis for enabling the additional protections in debug builds is that it will help us find bugs in our native code and we aren't as concerned in debug builds with footprint and performance. Since many developers already do their personal builds in fastdebug or slowdebug mode for testing this will provide good opportunity to shake out any problems with the options while not impacting release builds. Should we find that any of the options provide significant value for their cost we can move them to fastdebug or release. If any of the options prove too costly they can be demoted or removed entirely.
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032045
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mduigou/JDK-8032045/2/webrev/
> 
> Additional to enabling the various compiler options I attempted to rationalize some of the skew between the various hotspot/make/{platform}/makefiles/gcc.make files while avoiding changing existing behaviour. I have also introduced the new -Og "optimize for debugging" option and there are now an explicit C{XX}_O_FLAG_DEBUG definitions to complement the C{XX}_O_FLAG_{DEBUG|NORM|HI|HIGHEST|NONE} optimization options.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike