Re: [PATCH] ubsan: disable UBSAN_DIV_ZERO for clang

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Jul 14 2022 - 17:25:06 EST


On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 01:56:43PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Building with UBSAN_DIV_ZERO with clang produces numerous fallthrough
> warnings from objtool.
>
> In the case of uncheck division, UBSAN_DIV_ZERO may introduce new
> control flow to check for division by zero. Because the result of the
> division is undefined, LLVM may optimize the control flow such that
> after the call to __ubsan_handle_divrem_overflow doesn't matter. If
> panic_on_warn was set, __ubsan_handle_divrem_overflow would panic. The
> problem is is that panic_on_warn is run time configurable. If it's
> disabled, then we cannot guarantee that we will be able to recover
> safely. Disable this config for clang until we can come up with a
> solution in LLVM.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1657
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/56289
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj1qhf7y3VNACEexyp5EbkNpdcu_542k-xZpzmYLOjiCg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Linus,
> I still think we should add explicit checks to gaurd against divide by
> zero.
>
> lib/Kconfig.ubsan | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
> index a9f7eb047768..fd15230a703b 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
> @@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ config UBSAN_SHIFT
> config UBSAN_DIV_ZERO
> bool "Perform checking for integer divide-by-zero"
> depends on $(cc-option,-fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero)
> + # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1657
> + # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/56289
> + depends on !CC_IS_CLANG
> help
> This option enables -fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero which checks
> for integer division by zero. This is effectively redundant with the
> --
> 2.37.0.170.g444d1eabd0-goog
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