Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] kbuild: rust: use klint to provide CONFIG_FRAME_WARN

[Gary Guo]

On Tue Jan 27, 2026 at 10:15 PM GMT, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 05:11:04PM +0000, Gary Guo wrote:
>> From: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> klint is able to analyze frame size and warn on frames that are too big.
>> 
>> With `register_tool(klint)` support, we can simply instruct rust to turn on
>> `klint::stack_frame_too_large`. This is a no-op if normal rustc (or Clippy)
>> is invoked, but will perform the check if klint is used.
>> 
>> This is an example of a bug caught using this option:
>> 
>> warning: stack size of `gsp::cmdq::Cmdq::new` is 8216 bytes, exceeds the 2048-byte limit
>>    --> drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs:453:5
>>     |
>> 453 |     pub(crate) fn new(dev: &device::Device<device::Bound>) -> Result<Cmdq> {
>>     |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     |
>>     = note: the stack size is inferred from instruction `sub $0x2018,%rsp` at .text+32778
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Is the limit customizable?

Lints in Rust do not take arguments, so there's no way to represent something
similar to `-Wframe-larger-than=foo`. However, I've made klint search [1] for
`CONFIG_FRAME_WARN` and use whatever value is there.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/klint/blob/168031d93c3aa538c8ef71d1e448ae77c2cef7a7/src/binary_analysis/stack_size.rs#L70-L82 [1]

Best,
Gary

>
>> ---
>>  scripts/Makefile.warn | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.warn b/scripts/Makefile.warn
>> index 5567da6c7dfe..254a4d53f8f3 100644
>> --- a/scripts/Makefile.warn
>> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.warn
>> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
>>  
>>  ifneq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN),0)
>>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wframe-larger-than=$(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN)
>> +KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Wklint::stack-frame-too-large
>>  endif
>>  
>>  KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS) += -Wno-array-bounds
>> -- 
>> 2.51.2
>>