Re: [PATCH 0/6] slab: Provide full coverage for __alloc_size attribute

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 07:33:43 EST


On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, at 13:24, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:33:08PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a series to work around a deficiency in GCC (>=11) and Clang
>> (<16) where the __alloc_size attribute does not apply to inlines. :(
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96503
>>
>> This manifests as reduced overflow detection coverage for many allocation
>> sites under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y, where the allocation size was
>> not actually being propagated to __builtin_dynamic_object_size(). In
>> addition to working around the issue, expand use of __alloc_size (and
>> __realloc_size) to more places and provide KUnit tests to validate all
>> the covered allocator APIs.
>
> Hello Kees!
>
> It would appear that one of the macros you've added here is doing Bad
> Things^TM to allmodconfig on RISC-V since the 22nd:
>
> ../lib/fortify_kunit.c: In function 'alloc_size_kmalloc_const_test':
> ../lib/fortify_kunit.c:140:1: error: the frame size of 2384 bytes is
> larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 140 | }
> \
> | ^
> ../lib/fortify_kunit.c:209:1: note: in expansion of macro
> 'DEFINE_ALLOC_SIZE_TEST_PAIR'
> 209 | DEFINE_ALLOC_SIZE_TEST_PAIR(kmalloc)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=110100
> CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23700
> CONFIG_LD_VERSION=23700
>
> The report came out of my CI (which I should have passed on sooner) so
> I do not have anything other than stderr - I can get you anything else
> you'd like/need though if you LMK.

There is generally a conflict between kunit and the structleak
gcc plugin, I think the Makefile needs a line like

CFLAGS_fortify_kunit.o += $(DISABLE_STRUCTLEAK_PLUGIN)

Arnd