Re: [PATCH] kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:06 AM Andrey Ryabinin
<aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2/20/19 8:35 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 2/20/19 5:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > Maybe bringing it back would be a compromise? That way it's hidden from
> > all the build testing bots (because of the !CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST dependency),
> > but anyone who really wants it can still have the option, and set
> > CONFIG_FRAME_WARN
> > to whichever value they like.
> >
>
>
> I think there is much simpler solution:
>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 219cddc913ac..6cd035f06cee 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ endchoice
>
>  config KASAN_STACK
>         int
> +       range 0 1
> +       prompt "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && (CLANG_VERSION < 90000)
>         default 0 if CC_IS_CLANG && (CLANG_VERSION < 90000)
>         default 1
>         help
> --
>
>
> AFAIK, randconfig is not able to randomize int config options, so it will be disabled for build robots,
> but users still will be able to enable it.

Right, this will work, but I find it a bit awkward to require users to
enter 0 or 1.

My assumption is that build bots turn on CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, so
having a bool option that depends on COMPILE_TEST would be more
conventional. We can debate whether it should also depend on
CONFIG_EXPERT or not. Something like

config KASAN_STACK
         bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG
&& !COMPILE_TEST
         default CC_IS_GCC || (CLANG_VERSION >= 90000)

And then a simpler Makefile logic (could also be done in Kconfig) to turn
that bool symbol into an integer argument for asan-stack=

       Arnd