This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kfence: avoid passing -g for test
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kfence-avoid-passing-g-for-test.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2e08ca1802441224f5b7cc6bffbb687f7406de95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:47:04 +0100
Subject: kfence: avoid passing -g for test
From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2e08ca1802441224f5b7cc6bffbb687f7406de95 upstream.
Nathan reported that when building with GNU as and a version of clang that
defaults to DWARF5:
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- \
LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0 O=build \
mrproper allmodconfig mm/kfence/kfence_test.o
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14627: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14628: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14632: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14633: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
/tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14639: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
...
This is because `-g` defaults to the compiler debug info default. If the
assembler does not support some of the directives used, the above errors
occur. To fix, remove the explicit passing of `-g`.
All the test wants is that stack traces print valid function names, and
debug info is not required for that. (I currently cannot recall why I
added the explicit `-g`.)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316224705.709984-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: bc8fbc5f305a ("kfence: add test suite")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kfence/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/kfence/Makefile
+++ b/mm/kfence/Makefile
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) := core.o report.o
-CFLAGS_kfence_test.o := -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
+CFLAGS_kfence_test.o := -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE_KUNIT_TEST) += kfence_test.o
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from elver@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/thread_info-add-helpers-to-snapshot-thread-flags.patch
queue-5.15/kfence-avoid-passing-g-for-test.patch
