Re: [PATCH 4.9 09/62] kasan: turn on -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:36:45PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/6/19 6:10 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 05:55:54PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/6/19 5:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> commit c5caf21ab0cf884ef15b25af234f620e4a233139 upstream.
> >>>
> >>> In the upcoming gcc7 release, the -fsanitize=kernel-address option at
> >>> first implied new -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope option.  This would
> >>> cause link errors on older kernels because they don't have two new
> >>> functions required for use-after-scope support.  Therefore, gcc7 changed
> >>> default to -fno-sanitize-address-use-after-scope.
> >>>
> >>> Now the kernel has everything required for that feature since commit
> >>> 828347f8f9a5 ("kasan: support use-after-scope detection").  So, to make it
> >>> work, we just have to enable use-after-scope in CFLAGS.
> >>>
> >>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481207977-28654-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>>  scripts/Makefile.kasan |    2 ++
> >>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>> --- a/scripts/Makefile.kasan
> >>> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.kasan
> >>> @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ else
> >>>      endif
> >>>  endif
> >>>  
> >>> +CFLAGS_KASAN += $(call cc-option, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope)
> >>> +
> >>>  CFLAGS_KASAN_NOSANITIZE := -fno-builtin
> >>>  
> >>>  endif
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> This shouldn't be in the -stable.
> > 
> > Why not?  Does no one use gcc7 with this kernel and kasan?
> > 
> 
> You don't need this patch to use kasan on this kernel with gcc7.
> This patch only enables detection of use-after-scope bugs. This feature appeared to be useless,
> hence it disabled recently by commit 7771bdbbfd3d ("kasan: remove use after scope bugs detection.")

Ah, didn't notice that, nice!

Ok, I'll go drop this, thanks for letting me know.

> The link errors mentioned in changelog was the problem only for some period of time in the development branch of GCC 7.
> The released GCC7 version doesn't have this problem.

Also good to know, thanks!

greg k-h