Re: [PATCH RESEND v1 1/1] x86/kernel: Increase kcov coverage under arch/x86/kernel folder

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:04:18 +0800 Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently kcov instrument is disabled for object files under arch/x86/kernel
> folder.
> For object files under arch/x86/kernel, actually just disabling the kcov
> instrument of files:"head32.o or head64.o and sev.o" could achieve
> successful booting and provide kcov coverage for object files that do not
> disable kcov instrument.
> The additional kcov coverage collected from arch/x86/kernel folder helps
> kernel fuzzing efforts to find bugs.
> 
> Link to related improvement discussion is below:
> https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/Dsl-RYGCqs8/m/x-tfpTyFBAAJ
> Related ticket is as follow:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198443
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -33,11 +33,10 @@ KCSAN_SANITIZE := n
>  KMSAN_SANITIZE_head$(BITS).o				:= n
>  KMSAN_SANITIZE_nmi.o					:= n
>  
> -# If instrumentation of this dir is enabled, boot hangs during first second.
> -# Probably could be more selective here, but note that files related to irqs,
> -# boot, dumpstack/stacktrace, etc are either non-interesting or can lead to
> -# non-deterministic coverage.
> -KCOV_INSTRUMENT		:= n
> +# If instrumentation of the following files is enabled, boot hangs during
> +# first second.
> +KCOV_INSTRUMENT_head$(BITS).o				:= n
> +KCOV_INSTRUMENT_sev.o					:= n
>  
>  CFLAGS_irq.o := -I $(srctree)/$(src)/../include/asm/trace

This patch exposes (but probably doesn't cause) an objtool warning:

arch/x86/kernel/traps.o: warning: objtool: ibt_selftest+0x18: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame

gcc-12.2.0, x86_64 allmodconfig.