Bug 2072762

Summary:	gcc -Wbidirectional vs -Wbidi-chars discrepancy
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Marek Polacek <mpolacek>
Component:	gcc	Assignee:	Marek Polacek <mpolacek>
gcc sub component:	system-version	QA Contact:	Václav Kadlčík <vkadlcik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	Docs Contact:	Petr Hybl <phybl>
Severity:	unspecified
Priority:	unspecified	CC:	ahajkova, benh, bstinson, fweimer, jakub, jwboyer, ohudlick, phybl, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, sipoyare, tumeya
Version:	8.7	Keywords:	Bugfix, Triaged
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Divergence between RHEL 9 gcc and upstream gcc. Consequence: Confusing for users. Fix: Make RHEL 9 gcc accept both -Wbidirectional and -Wbidi-chars Result: Less confusion	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	2072758	Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-04-20 17:26:30 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	2072758
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Description Marek Polacek 2022-04-06 22:18:40 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2072758 +++

Description of problem:

To address CVE-2021-42574, RHEL8/CentOS8 implements a gcc patch which adds the -Wbidirectional option. This is also documented in various RH advisories.

This is unfortunately different from upstream gcc which named the option -Wbidi-chars instead.

From what I can see of the available source code, RHEL9/CentOS9 backported to gcc11 the "upstream" variant.

This can/will cause a discrepancy between RHEL8 and RHEL9 for customers and between RHEL and other distributions.

Would it be possible to amend the patches in the backports to support both variants ?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I've verified the git repos of c8s and c9, but from the published advisories, this also affects the various devtoolsets.

I also noticed gcc has some followup fixes/updates for that code that weren't backported.

--- Additional comment from Marek Polacek on 2022-04-06 22:11:47 UTC ---

Thanks for the report.  As I mentioned in the email, I would like to add an alias so that RHEL9 gcc groks both -Wbidirectional and -Wbidi-chars.

I think we want a clone for RHEL 8 gcc too.  But I don't see how we'd fix this in DTS/GTS at this point.

Comment 1 Marek Polacek 2022-04-20 17:26:30 UTC

Turns out the current RHEL8 gcc *already* uses -Wbidi-chars!  Nothing to do here.