Re: [PATCH] fs/select: avoid clang stack usage warning

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, at 9:04 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:28 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> - The behavior of -ftrivial-auto-var-init= is a bit odd here: with =zero or
> >>   =pattern, the stack usage is just below the limit (1020), without the
> >>   option it is up to 1044. It looks like your .config picks =zero, which
> >>   was dropped in the latest clang version, so it falls back to not
> >
> > Huh? What do you mean by "was dropped?"
> >
> > The config I sent has:
> > CONFIG_CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_PATTERN=y
> > CONFIG_CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO_BARE=y
> > CONFIG_CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO=y
> > # CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE is not set
> > CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y
> 
> When I use this config on my kernel tree (currently on top of
> next-20220929 for unrelated work) and build with clang-16,
> CONFIG_CC_HAS_AUTO_VAR_INIT_ZERO is disabled, so it falls
> back from CONFIG_INIT_STACK_NONE instead of the unavailable
> CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO.

I think you have a very recent Clang but are building a tree that
doesn't have commit 607e57c6c62c ("hardening: Remove Clang's enable flag
for -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero").

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Kees Cook