Re: [PATCH] arm64: Support Clang UBSAN trap codes for better reporting

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Feb 03 2023 - 11:36:23 EST


On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 12:34:38PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> [...]
> > + switch (check_type) {
> > + case ubsan_add_overflow:
> > + return "UBSAN: addition overflow";
>
> It would be nice if we could avoid duplicating this UBSAN: prefix 21x times.

Yeah, agreed. I didn't see a way around it without weirdness or loss of
details. die() takes a string not a format string, so without really
odd shenanigans (re-write a single string in memory?) this is the most
straight forward. One idea, though, is to drop all the strings that'll
never happen -- i.e. wrap individual case statements in the associated
CONFIG_UBSAN_foo. I already dropped several strings that were never
implemented in the kernel's UBSAN. I could be even more picky. I'll try
this in v2...

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Kees Cook