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Commit 67ebc3ab authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook
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fortify: Make sure strlen() may still be used as a constant expression

In preparation for enabling Clang FORTIFY_SOURCE support, redefine
strlen() as a macro that tests for being a constant expression
so that strlen() can still be used in static initializers, which is
lost when adding __pass_object_size and __overloadable.

An example of this usage can be seen here:
	https://lore.kernel.org/all/202201252321.dRmWZ8wW-lkp@intel.com/



Notably, this constant expression feature of strlen() is not available
for architectures that build with -ffreestanding. This means the kernel
currently does not universally expect strlen() to be used this way, but
since there _are_ some build configurations that depend on it, retain
the characteristic for Clang FORTIFY_SOURCE builds too.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220208225350.1331628-8-keescook@chromium.org
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