Re: [PATCH] kcov: don't instrument with UBSAN

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:01 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Both KCOV and UBSAN use compiler instrumentation. If UBSAN detects a bug
> in KCOV, it may cause infinite recursion via printk and other common
> functions. We already don't instrument KCOV with KASAN/KCSAN for this
> reason, don't instrument it with UBSAN as well.
>
> As a side effect this also resolves the following gcc warning:
>
> conflicting types for built-in function '__sanitizer_cov_trace_switch';
> expected 'void(long unsigned int,  void *)' [-Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch]
>
> It's only reported when kcov.c is compiled with any of the sanitizers
> enabled. Size of the arguments is correct, it's just that gcc uses 'long'
> on 64-bit arches and 'long long' on 32-bit arches, while kernel type is
> always 'long long'.
>
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/Makefile | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index aac15aeb9d69..efa42857532b 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_extable.o := n
>  KCOV_INSTRUMENT_stacktrace.o := n
>  # Don't self-instrument.
>  KCOV_INSTRUMENT_kcov.o := n
> +# If sanitizers detect any issues in kcov, it may lead to recursion
> +# via printk, etc.
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
>  KCSAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
> +UBSAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
>  CFLAGS_kcov.o := $(call cc-option, -fno-conserve-stack) -fno-stack-protector
>
>  obj-y += sched/
> --
> 2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog
>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>




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