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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
To: arnd@kernel.org
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: wp512: disable kmsan checks in wp512_process_buffer()
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:08:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221216160841.2061759-1-glider@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221215162956.4037570-1-arnd@kernel.org>

> The memory sanitizer causes excessive register spills in this function:

> crypto/wp512.c:782:13: error: stack frame size (2104) exceeds limit (2048) in 'wp512_process_buffer' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]

> Assume that this one is safe, and mark it as needing no checks to
> get the stack usage back down to the normal level.

KMSAN indeed bloats the stack frames heavily.
Wouldn't it be more preferable to further increase KMSAN's -Wframe-larger-than limit instead?
It is not intended for production anyway, and detecting a runtime stack overflow in the debug mode should not be a problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-15 16:29 [PATCH] crypto: wp512: disable kmsan checks in wp512_process_buffer() Arnd Bergmann
2022-12-16 16:08 ` Alexander Potapenko [this message]
2022-12-16 18:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-12-30 15:14 ` Herbert Xu

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