Re: objtool warning from next-20230125

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 07:18:57 EST


On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:59:54PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:23:02AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have started seeing these objtool warnings from a wide variety of
> > KASAN-enabled rcutorture-related test scenarios in next-20230125. It has
> > been awhile since I tested -next, so I am not yet sure where this started.
> >
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memset+0x34: call to __memset() with UACCESS enabled
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memmove+0x4d: call to __memmove() with UACCESS enabled
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memcpy+0x4d: call to __memcpy() with UACCESS enabled
> >
> > As usual, should I be worried?
>
> This apparently came from Peter's
>
> 69d4c0d32186 ("entry, kasan, x86: Disallow overriding mem*() functions")
>
> but I have no idea how this is supposed to work. Peter?

Durr.. I'm not sure why I put them in the uaccess_safe_builtin[] array.

So yeah, this reproduces using defconfig+KASAN, removing the functions
from the array shuts it up and doesn't generate new ones -- for that
config.

Let me try and build a few more .configs...