Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Fix "fix hypercall test" build errors

[Jim Mattson]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:20 AM David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 4:34 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > After a toolchain upgrade (I think), the x86 fix_hypercall_test started
> > throwing warnings due to -Werror=array-bounds rightly complaining that
> > the test is generating an out-of-bounds array access.
> >
> > The "obvious" fix is to replace the memcpy() with a memcmp() and compare
> > only the exact size of the hypercall instruction.  That worked, until I
> > fiddled with the code a bit more and suddenly the test started jumping into
> > the weeds due to gcc generating a call to the external memcmp() through the
> > PLT, which isn't supported in the selftests.
> >
> > To fix that mess, which has been a pitfall for quite some time, provide
> > implementations of memcmp(), memcpy(), and memset() to effectively override
> > the compiler built-ins.  My thought is to start with the helpers that are
> > most likely to be used in guest code, and then add more as needed.
>
> Ah ha! This also fixes an issue I've long since noticed and finally
> got around to debugging this morning. userspace_io_test fails for me
> when built with Clang but passes with GCC. It turns out Clang
> generates a call to <memset@plt>, whereas GCC directly generates rep
> stos, to clear @buffer in guest_code().

Hey! Did I miss a revert of commit ed290e1c20da ("KVM: selftests: Fix
nested SVM tests when built with clang") in that patch set?