Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] em28xx: fix em28xx_dvb_init for KASAN

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
<aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/27/2017 04:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
>> <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> --- a/include/linux/string.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
>> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
>>  #define __FORTIFY_INLINE extern __always_inline __attribute__((gnu_inline))
>>  #define __RENAME(x) __asm__(#x)
>>
>> -void fortify_panic(const char *name) __noreturn __cold;
>> +void fortify_panic(const char *name) __cold;
>>  void __read_overflow(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>> size of object passed as 1st parameter");
>>  void __read_overflow2(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>> size of object passed as 2nd parameter");
>>  void __read_overflow3(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>> size of object passed as 3rd parameter");
>>
>> I don't immediately see why the __noreturn changes the behavior here, any idea?
>>
>
>
> At first I thought that this somehow might be related to __asan_handle_no_return(). GCC calls it
> before noreturn function. So I made patch to remove generation of these calls (we don't need them in the kernel anyway)
> but it didn't help. It must be something else than.

I made a reduced test case yesterday (see http://paste.ubuntu.com/25628030/),
and it shows the same behavior with and without the sanitizer, it uses 128
bytes without the noreturn attribute and 480 bytes when its added, the sanitizer
adds a factor of 1.5x on top. It's possible that I did something wrong while
reducing, since the original driver file uses very little stack (a few hundred
bytes) without -fsanitize=kernel-address, but finding out what happens in
the reduced case may still help understand the other one.

        Arnd