Re: [PATCH] [v2] kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier

[Qian Cai]

On 2/22/19 5:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building an arm64 allmodconfig kernel with clang results in over 140 warnings
> about overly large stack frames, the worst ones being:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-sitronix-st7789v.c:196:12: error: stack frame size of 20224 bytes in function 'st7789v_prepare'
> drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-tpo-td028ttec1.c:196:12: error: stack frame size of 13120 bytes in function 'td028ttec1_panel_enable'
> drivers/usb/host/max3421-hcd.c:1395:1: error: stack frame size of 10048 bytes in function 'max3421_spi_thread'
> drivers/net/wan/slic_ds26522.c:209:12: error: stack frame size of 9664 bytes in function 'slic_ds26522_probe'
> drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c:2434:5: error: stack frame size of 8832 bytes in function 'ccp_run_cmd'
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0367.c:1005:12: error: stack frame size of 7840 bytes in function 'stv0367ter_algo'
> 
> None of these happen with gcc today, and almost all of these are the result
> of a single known issue in llvm.  Hopefully it will eventually get fixed with
> the clang-9 release.
> 
> In the meantime, the best idea I have is to turn off asan-stack for clang-8
> and earlier, so we can produce a kernel that is safe to run.
> 
> I have posted three patches that address the frame overflow warnings that are
> not addressed by turning off asan-stack, so in combination with this change,
> we get much closer to a clean allmodconfig build, which in turn is necessary
> to do meaningful build regression testing.
> 
> It is still possible to turn on the CONFIG_ASAN_STACK option on all versions
> of clang, and it's always enabled for gcc, but when CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST is
> set, the option remains invisible, so allmodconfig and randconfig builds
> (which are normally done with a forced CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST) will still result
> in a mostly clean build.
> 
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>