Re: [PATCH] kasan: remove hwasan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1 for clang-14

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, at 14:06, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 18:26, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 10:29:27AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It errors as expected. But with:
>
>> clang -Werror -mllvm -hwasan-does-not-exist -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null
>
> It ends up printing _help_ text, because anything "-h..." (if it
> doesn't recognize it as a long-form argument), will make it produce
> the help text.

Ah, that explains a lot. I think I actually tried a few other options, but
probably only edited part of the option name, and not the beginning, so
I always saw the help text.

>> >  # Instrument memcpy/memset/memmove calls by using instrumented __hwasan_mem*().
>> > +ifeq ($(call clang-min-version, 150000),y)
>> >  CFLAGS_KASAN += $(call cc-param,hwasan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)
>> > +endif
>> > +ifeq ($(call gcc-min-version, 130000),y)
>> > +CFLAGS_KASAN += $(call cc-param,hwasan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)
>> > +endif
>>
>> I do not think you need to duplicate this block, I think
>>
>>   ifeq ($(call clang-min-version, 150000)$(call gcc-min-version, 130000),y)
>>   CFLAGS_KASAN += $(call cc-param,hwasan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)
>>   endif
>
> We just need the clang version check. If the compiler is gcc, it'll do
> the "right thing" (i.e. not print help text). So at a minimum, we need
> if "clang version >= 15 or gcc". Checking if gcc is 13 or later
> doesn't hurt though, so I don't mind either way.

I've sent a v2 now, with an updated help text and the simplified
version check.

It might be possible to change the cc-option check in a way that
parses the output, this variant should do that, if we care:

echo "char *str = \"check that assembler works\";" | clang -Werror -mllvm -hwasan-does-not-exist  -S -x c - -o - | grep -q "check that assembler works"

      Arnd