[PATCH 06/14] Fix CFLAGS for UBSAN_BOUNDS on Clang

Marco Elver elver at google.com
Tue Sep 15 13:32:28 EDT 2020


On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 14:01, George Popescu <georgepope at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:18:11PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 12:25, George Popescu <georgepope at google.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:13:14PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 05:27:42PM +0000, George-Aurelian Popescu wrote:
> > > > > From: George Popescu <georgepope at google.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > When the kernel is compiled with Clang, UBSAN_BOUNDS inserts a brk after
> > > > > the handler call, preventing it from printing any information processed
> > > > > inside the buffer.
> > > > > For Clang -fsanitize=bounds expands to -fsanitize=array-bounds and
> > > > > -fsanitize=local-bounds, and the latter adds a brk after the handler
> > > > > call
> > > >
> > > This would mean losing the local-bounds coverage. I tried to  test it without
> > > local-bounds and with a locally defined array on the stack and it works fine
> > > (the handler is called and the error reported). For me it feels like
> > > --array-bounds and --local-bounds are triggered for the same type of
> > > undefined_behaviours but they are handling them different.
> >
> > Does -fno-sanitize-trap=bounds help?>
>
> I tried replacing it with:
>       ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
>             CFLAGS_UBSAN += $(call cc-option, -fno-sanitize-trap=bounds)
>             CFLAGS_UBSAN += $(call cc-option, -fsanitize=bounds)
>       else
>             CFLAGS_UBSAN += $(call cc-option, -fsanitize=bounds)
>       endif
>
> The code traps.

What's your config? Do you have CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y? If so, you have 2
options: honor UBSAN_TRAP and crash the kernel, or have a
'CFLAGS_REMOVE_... = -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error' for the files
where you can't deal with traps.

Thanks,
-- Marco



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