https://reviews.llvm.org/rGd656ae28095726830f9beb8dbd4d69f5144ef821
introduced a additional checks before calling noreturn functions in
response to this security paper related to Catch Handler Oriented
Programming (CHOP):
https://download.vusec.net/papers/chop_ndss23.pdf
See also:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/llvm/issues/detail?id=30
This causes stack canaries to be inserted in C code which was
unexpected; we noticed certain Linux kernel trees stopped booting after
this (in functions trying to initialize the stack canary itself).
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1815
There is no point checking the stack canary like this when exceptions
are disabled (-fno-exceptions or function is marked noexcept) or for C
code. The GCC patch for this issue does something similar:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=a25982ada523689c8745d7fb4b1b93c8f5dab2e7
Android measured a 2% regression in RSS as a result of d656ae280957 and
undid it globally:
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/build/soong/+/2524336
I +1 for this constraints to reduce code size.
For C level except (setjmp longjmp) they mainly set/read register status from function parameter not stack. So low risk.