[PATCH] kasan: Always respect CONFIG_KASAN_STACK

Alex Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Oct 14 11:31:00 PDT 2021


Hi Nathan,

Le 14/10/2021 à 18:55, Nathan Chancellor a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 11:46:55AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:59:46 PDT (-0700), nathan at kernel.org wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 22:55, Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>> Currently, the asan-stack parameter is only passed along if
>>>>> CFLAGS_KASAN_SHADOW is not empty, which requires KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET to
>>>>> be defined in Kconfig so that the value can be checked. In RISC-V's
>>>>> case, KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET is not defined in Kconfig, which means that
>>>>> asan-stack does not get disabled with clang even when CONFIG_KASAN_STACK
>>>>> is disabled, resulting in large stack warnings with allmodconfig:
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/displays/panel-lgphilips-lb035q02.c:117:12:
>>>>> error: stack frame size (14400) exceeds limit (2048) in function
>>>>> 'lb035q02_connect' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
>>>>> static int lb035q02_connect(struct omap_dss_device *dssdev)
>>>>>             ^
>>>>> 1 error generated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ensure that the value of CONFIG_KASAN_STACK is always passed along to
>>>>> the compiler so that these warnings do not happen when
>>>>> CONFIG_KASAN_STACK is disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1453
>>>>> References: 6baec880d7a5 ("kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
>>>>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>> [ Which tree are you planning to take it through? ]
>>>
>>> Gah, I was intending for it to go through -mm, then I cc'd neither
>>> Andrew nor linux-mm... :/ Andrew, do you want me to resend or can you
>>> grab it from LKML?
>>
>> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
>>
>> (assuming you still want it through somewhere else)
> 
> Thanks, it is now in mainline as commit 19532869feb9 ("kasan: always
> respect CONFIG_KASAN_STACK").
> 
>>>> Note, arch/riscv/include/asm/kasan.h mentions KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET in
>>>> comment (copied from arm64). Did RISC-V just forget to copy over the
>>>> Kconfig option?
>>>
>>> I do see it defined in that file as well but you are right that they did
>>> not copy the Kconfig logic, even though it was present in the tree when
>>> RISC-V KASAN was implemented. Perhaps they should so that they get
>>> access to the other flags in the "else" branch?
>>
>> Ya, looks like we just screwed this up.  I'm seeing some warnings like
>>
>>     cc1: warning: ‘-fsanitize=kernel-address’ with stack protection is not supported without ‘-fasan-shadow-offset=’ for this target
> 
> Hmmm, I thought I did a GCC build with this change but I must not have
> :/
> 
>> which is how I ended up here, I'm assuming that's what you're talking about
>> here?  LMK if you were planning on sending along a fix or if you want me to
>> go figure it out.
> 
> I took a look at moving the logic into Kconfig like arm64 before sending
> this change and I did not really understand it well enough to do so. I
> think it would be best if you were able to do that so that nothing gets
> messed up.
> 

I'll do it tomorrow, I'm the last one who touched kasan on riscv :)

Thanks,

Alex

> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
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