Meet compiled kernel binaray abnormal issue while enabling generic kasan in kernel 6.12 with some default KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS on

Wed Jul 16 11:21:21 PDT 2025

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 07:01:29AM +0000, 刘海燕 (Haiyan Liu) wrote:
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> > -----邮件原件-----
> > 发件人: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com>
> > 发送时间: 2025年7月16日 1:51
> > 收件人: 刘海燕 (Haiyan Liu) <haiyan.liu at unisoc.com>
> > 抄送: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda at kernel.org>; 周平 (Ping Zhou/9032) <Ping.Zhou1 at unisoc.com>; 代子为 (Ziwei Dai)
> > <Ziwei.Dai at unisoc.com>; 杨丽娜 (Lina Yang) <lina.yang at unisoc.com>; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> > linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; rust-for-linux at vger.kernel.org; 王双 (Shuang Wang) <shuang.wang at unisoc.com>; Andrey Ryabinin
> > <ryabinin.a.a at gmail.com>; Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>; Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at gmail.com>; Dmitry Vyukov
> > <dvyukov at google.com>; Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>; kasan-dev at googlegroups.com; Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>; Arve Hjønnevåg <arve at android.com>; Todd Kjos <tkjos at android.com>; Martijn Coenen
> > <maco at android.com>; Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf at nvidia.com>; Christian Brauner <christian at brauner.io>; Carlos Llamas
> > <cmllamas at google.com>; Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>; Jamie Cunliffe <Jamie.Cunliffe at arm.com>; Catalin Marinas
> > <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > 主题: Re: Meet compiled kernel binaray abnormal issue while enabling generic kasan in kernel 6.12 with some default KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS
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> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM 刘海燕 (Haiyan Liu) <haiyan.liu at unisoc.com> wrote:
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> > > The commit changes the fragment and diff is:
> > 
> > An Android engineer should know how to handle that, but if you are reporting upstream, it is best to try to reproduce the issue with the
> > upstream kernels (e.g. arm64 is not in 6.6.y) and provide the full kernel config used.
> > 
> > > Only two rust-related global variables in fmr.rs and layout.rs have this issue. Their asan.module_ctor complied binaries are wrong.
> > 
> > I am not sure what you mean by `fmr.rs`. As for `layout.rs`, that is in the `kernel` crate in 6.12.y -- isn't there a single `asan.module_ctor`
> > per TU? Which object file are you referring to? I get the pair for my `rust/kernel.o`.
> 
>   NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7C94|F800865E  asan.module_ctor:   str     x30,[x18],#0x8   ; x30,[x18],#8
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7C98|F81F0FFE                      str     x30,[sp,#-0x10]!   ; x30,[sp,#-16]!
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7C9C|F00240A0                      adrp    x0,0xFFFFFFC0848BE000
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CA0|911D8000                      add     x0,x0,#0x760     ; x0,x0,#1888
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CA4|52803D61                      mov     w1,#0x1EB        ; w1,#491
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CA8|94233816                      bl      0xFFFFFFC080975D00   ; __asan_register_globals
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CAC|F84107FE                      ldr     x30,[sp],#0x10   ; x30,[sp],#16
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CB0|D50323BF                      autiasp
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7CB4|D65F03C0                      ret
> The first __asan_global struct value is 
>  ENAXI:FFFFFFC0848BE760|>FFFFFFC082EDB180 000000000000005F ........_.......
>  ENAXI:FFFFFFC0848BE770| 0000000000000080 FFFFFFC0836DC431 ........1.m.....
>  ENAXI:FFFFFFC0848BE780| FFFFFFC082EEC780 0000000000000000 ................
>  ENAXI:FFFFFFC0848BE790| 0000000000000000 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ................
> The address of the global is 0xFFFFFFC082EDB180 which value is '/proc/self/cwd/prebuilts/rust/linux-x86/1.82.0/lib/rustlib/src/rust/library/core/src/num/fmt.rs' and its viewinfo is 'vmlinux\Global\__unnamed_357'
> The original size of the global is 0x5F
> The name of the global is kmalloc-2k
> The module name of the global is 'core.27758904ccee4c80-cgu.o'
> 
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D4C|F800865E  asan.mod.:str     x30,[x18],#0x8   ; x30,[x18],#8
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D50|F81F0FFE            str     x30,[sp,#-0x10]!   ; x30,[sp,#-16]!
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D54|F00240E0            adrp    x0,0xFFFFFFC0848C6000
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D58|912E8000            add     x0,x0,#0xBA0     ; x0,x0,#2976
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D5C|52800961            mov     w1,#0x4B         ; w1,#75
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D60|942337E8            bl      0xFFFFFFC080975D00   ; __asan_register_globals
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D64|F84107FE            ldr     x30,[sp],#0x10   ; x30,[sp],#16
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D68|D50323BF            autiasp
>    NSX:FFFFFFC0800A7D6C|D65F03C0            ret
> The second __asan_global struct value is 
>    NSD:FFFFFFC0848C6BA0|>FFFFFFC082EECA80 0000000000000020 ........ .......
>    NSD:FFFFFFC0848C6BB0| 0000000000000040 FFFFFFC0836DC431 @.......1.m.....
>    NSD:FFFFFFC0848C6BC0| FFFFFFC082EEDA80 0000000000000000 ................
>    NSD:FFFFFFC0848C6BD0| 0000000000000000 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ................
> The address of the global is 0xFFFFFFC082EECA80 which value is 0 and its viewinfo is '<&usize_as_core::f..vmlinux\kernel_9a6cb9fd7c8dfd66_cgu\<&usize_as_core::fmt::Debug>::{vtable}'
> The original size of the global is 0x20
> The name of the global is kmalloc-2k
> The module name of the global is 'kernel.9a6cb9fd7c8dfd66-cgu.o'
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Miguel

We have KASAN builds with android16-6.12 and haven't seen this issue.
Can you share your entire config file, so we can try to reproduce?

Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer at google.com>

Alice, Matthew, have you seen this before?

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Carlos Llamas