This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when FORTIFY_SOURCE=y to the 4.14-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: tracing-prevent-profile_all_branches-when-fortify_source-y.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 68e76e034b6b1c1ce2eece1ab8ae4008e14be470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:07:27 -0800 Subject: tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when FORTIFY_SOURCE=y From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 68e76e034b6b1c1ce2eece1ab8ae4008e14be470 upstream. I regularly get 50 MB - 60 MB files during kernel randconfig builds. These large files mostly contain (many repeats of; e.g., 124,594): In file included from ../include/linux/string.h:6:0, from ../include/linux/uuid.h:20, from ../include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:13, from ../scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c:3: ../include/linux/compiler.h:64:4: warning: '______f' is static but declared in inline function 'strcpy' which is not static [enabled by default] ______f = { \ ^ ../include/linux/compiler.h:56:23: note: in expansion of macro '__trace_if' ^ ../include/linux/string.h:425:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if' if (p_size == (size_t)-1 && q_size == (size_t)-1) ^ This only happens when CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES=y, so prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES if FORTIFY_SOURCE=y. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9199446b-a141-c0c3-9678-a3f9107f2750@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES on if you need to profile the system's use of these macros. config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES - bool "Profile all if conditionals" + bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING help This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if () Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/tracing-prevent-profile_all_branches-when-fortify_source-y.patch