Re: current objtool warnings from randconfig builds

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:42 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 11:25:27AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > Hi Josh and Peter,
> > >
> > > I've updated my randconfig test setup to use gcc-13 and clang-16, and
> > > have sent fixes for all normal WERROR=y build warnings, but there are a
> > > lot of objtool warnings that remain. I've reported some of them in
> > > the past, some others are new. It would be nice to at least reduce
> > > the number of warnings either through code changes or workarounds
> > > in objtool for any false positives.
> > >
> > > Out of 1500 builds, about a third had any warnings, this is the full
> > > list sorted by frequency. Let me know if there are any that you haven't
> > > seen before, I can provide the corresponding object and config files
> > > for reproducing.
> > >
> > >     Arnd
> > >
> > > 8<---
> > > 205 mm/kasan/shadow.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memset+0x2e: call to __memset() with UACCESS enabled
> > > 205 mm/kasan/shadow.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memmove+0x48: call to __memmove() with UACCESS enabled
> > > 205 mm/kasan/shadow.o: warning: objtool: __asan_memcpy+0x48: call to __memcpy() with UACCESS enabled
> >
> > Patch pending here:
> >
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/commit/?h=sched/core-robot&id=79cdfdacd5b8d1ac77e24ccbc178bba0294d0d78
> > 
> >
> > > 80 vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ibt_selftest+0x11: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
> >
> > Can you provide details on how to reproduce this?
>
> Arnd, thanks for rounding these up and posting them.
>
> I agree we need to get these all cleaned up, but before we go too far
> down the rabbit hole, is there some better way to track these?
>
> Not that I would suggest using an external tracker, but maybe at least
> put each set of related warnings (e.g., those having the same frequency)
> in its own subthread with the config/compiler info included.

If any are specific to clang, please use
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues
We have a tag for issues flagged by objtool
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%5BTOOL%5D+objtool%22

>
> --
> Josh
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers