Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 4:43 AM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sure, but the reality is that the real stack size is already doubled
> for KASAN. And that should be reflected in Wframe-larger-than.

I don't think that's true.

Quite the reverse, in fact.

Yes, the *dynamic* stack size is doubled due to KASAN, because it will
cause much deeper callchains.

But the individual frames don't grow that much apart from compilers
doing stupid things (ie apparently clang and KASAN_STACK), and if
anything, the deeper dynamic call chains means that the individual
frame size being small is even *more* important, but we do compensate
for the deeper stacks by making THREAD_SIZE_ORDER bigger at least on
x86.

Honestly, I am not even happy with the current "2048 bytes for
64-bit". The excuse has been that 64-bit needs more stack, but all it
ever did was clearly to just allow people to just do bad things.

Because a 1kB stack frame is horrendous even in 64-bit. That's not
"spill some registers" kind of stack frame. That's "put a big
structure on the stack" kind of stack frame regardless of any other
issues.

And no, "but we have 16kB of stack and we'll switch stacks on
interrupts" is not an excuse for one single level to use up 1kB, much
less 2kB.  Does anybody seriously believe that we don't quite normally
have stacks that are easily tens of frames deep?

Without having some true "this is the full callchain" information, the
best we can do is just limit individual stack frames. And 2kB is
*excessive*.

                     Linus