Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 4:48 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) failed like this:
>
> lib/test_kasan.c: In function 'vmalloc_oob':
> lib/test_kasan.c:1113:71: error: array subscript 2035 is outside array bounds of 'char[2035]' [-Werror=array-bounds]
>  1113 |                 KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, ((volatile char *)v_ptr)[size]);
>       |                                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
> lib/test_kasan.c:96:9: note: in definition of macro 'KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL'
>    96 |         expression;                                                     \
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~
> lib/test_kasan.c:1096:17: note: referencing an object of size 2035 allocated by 'vmalloc'
>  1096 |         v_ptr = vmalloc(size);
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> lib/test_kasan.c:1116:63: error: array subscript 2040 is outside array bounds of 'char[2035]' [-Werror=array-bounds]
>  1116 |         KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, ((volatile char *)v_ptr)[size + 5]);
>       |                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
> lib/test_kasan.c:96:9: note: in definition of macro 'KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL'
>    96 |         expression;                                                     \
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~
> lib/test_kasan.c:1096:17: note: referencing an object of size 2035 allocated by 'vmalloc'
>  1096 |         v_ptr = vmalloc(size);
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Caused by commit
>
>   96304a5b9bff ("kasan: improve vmalloc tests")
>
> interacting with commit
>
>   d4e0dad4a0cd ("Makefile: Enable -Warray-bounds")
>
> from the kspp tree.
>
> Since the KASAN tests are doing this deliberately, I added the below
> hack for today.  Is there something better?

No, this looks good. I'll add this change into the next version of the
KASAN vmalloc patchset.

Thanks, Stephen!