On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
> <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 09/27/2017 04:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
>>> <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> --- a/include/linux/string.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
>>> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
>>> #define __FORTIFY_INLINE extern __always_inline __attribute__((gnu_inline))
>>> #define __RENAME(x) __asm__(#x)
>>>
>>> -void fortify_panic(const char *name) __noreturn __cold;
>>> +void fortify_panic(const char *name) __cold;
>>> void __read_overflow(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>>> size of object passed as 1st parameter");
>>> void __read_overflow2(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>>> size of object passed as 2nd parameter");
>>> void __read_overflow3(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond
>>> size of object passed as 3rd parameter");
>>>
>>> I don't immediately see why the __noreturn changes the behavior here, any idea?
>>>
>>
>>
>> At first I thought that this somehow might be related to __asan_handle_no_return(). GCC calls it
>> before noreturn function. So I made patch to remove generation of these calls (we don't need them in the kernel anyway)
>> but it didn't help. It must be something else than.
>
> I made a reduced test case yesterday (see http://paste.ubuntu.com/25628030/),
> and it shows the same behavior with and without the sanitizer, it uses 128
> bytes without the noreturn attribute and 480 bytes when its added, the sanitizer
> adds a factor of 1.5x on top. It's possible that I did something wrong while
> reducing, since the original driver file uses very little stack (a few hundred
> bytes) without -fsanitize=kernel-address, but finding out what happens in
> the reduced case may still help understand the other one.
This is now GCC PR82365, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
I've come up with a workaround, but I'm not sure if that is any better than the
alternatives, will send the patch as a follow-up in a bit.
Arnd
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