The lkdtm selftest config fragment enables CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP to make the
ARRAY_BOUNDS test kill the calling process when an out-of-bound access
is detected by UBSAN. However, after this [1] commit, UBSAN is triggered
under many new scenarios that weren't detected before, such as in struct
definitions with fixed-size trailing arrays used as flexible arrays. As
a result, CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y has become a very aggressive option to
enable except for specific situations.
`make kselftest-merge` applies CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y to the kernel config
for all selftests, which makes many of them fail because of system hangs
during boot.
This change removes the config option from the lkdtm kselftest and also
the ARRAY_BOUNDS test to skip it rather than have it failing. If
out-of-bound array accesses need to be checked, there's
CONFIG_TEST_UBSAN for that.
[1] commit 2d47c6956ab3 ("ubsan: Tighten UBSAN_BOUNDS on GCC")'
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cañuelo <ricardo.canuelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/config | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/config b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/config
index 5d52f64dfb43..7afe05e8c4d7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/config
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/config
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y
CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y
CONFIG_UBSAN=y
CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y
-CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y
CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt
index 607b8d7e3ea3..6a49f2abbda8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/tests.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ EXCEPTION
#EXHAUST_STACK Corrupts memory on failure
#CORRUPT_STACK Crashes entire system on success
#CORRUPT_STACK_STRONG Crashes entire system on success
-ARRAY_BOUNDS
+#ARRAY_BOUNDS Needs CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y, might cause unrelated system hangs
CORRUPT_LIST_ADD list_add corruption
CORRUPT_LIST_DEL list_del corruption
STACK_GUARD_PAGE_LEADING
--
2.25.1
