Re: [PATCH] powerpc/prom_init: Add memset as valid external symbol if CONFIG_KASAN=y

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Sun Jun 19 2022 - 02:45:56 EST




Le 19/06/2022 à 05:52, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
> If CONFIG_KASAN=y, powerpc:allmodconfig fails to build with the following
> error.
>
> Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c
>
> The problem was introduced with commit 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S
> 64-bit outline-only KASAN support"). So far, with CONFIG_KASAN=y, only
> __memset was accepted as valid external symbol in prom_init_check.sh.
> Add memset as well to fix the problem.

No way. It is way too early to use the instrumented version of memset().

Did you try with the patch I sent ?

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/3802811f7cf94f730be44688539c01bba3a3b5c0.1654875808.git.christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks
Christophe

>
> Fixes: 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S 64-bit outline-only KASAN support")
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
> index b183ab9c5107..787142b5dd26 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
> grep "^CONFIG_KASAN=y$" .config >/dev/null
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]
> then
> - MEM_FUNCS="__memcpy __memset"
> + MEM_FUNCS="__memcpy __memset memset"
> else
> MEM_FUNCS="memcpy memset"
> fi