Re: [PATCH] bug.h: Work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()

Vineet Gupta
2018-02-08T00:51:52Z

On 02/07/2018 04:01 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:29:02 -0800 Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/2017 12:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I didn't realize we are missing the stack trace now which you removed
>>>> from the patch - why ? Did u intend to reduce inline generated code for the
>>>> stack dump calls - which sounds like a great idea. But it would only work
>>>> for the synchronous abort() but not when builtin translates to actual trap
>>>> inducing instruction.
>>>
>>> I assumed that the trap instruction would trigger the register and
>>> stack dump, as it does on all other architectures.
>>
>> Only if __builtin_trap() translated to that instruction. Otherwise we need to do
>> this inside abort()
>>
>>> The most common
>>> way this is handled is to have one instruction that is known to trap,
>>> and use that to trigger a BUG(), and have __builtin_trap() issue
>>> that instruction as well.
>>
>> Good point. So we'll need ARC specific abort anyways.
>>
>>
>>> You might also want to implement CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
>>> support to attach further data to it.
>>
>> OK I'll take a look !
>>
>>> How about overriding abort() with the same instruction that
>>> __builtin_trap() inserts on newer compilers then? That should
>>> make the behavior consistent.
>>
>> Yeah this is a great point ! Will do
>
> Didn't do ;)

Actually I did :-)

The discussion above digressed from original intent of the patch and instead
veered of into need for handling __builtin_trap() for ARC and a fallback abort()
with same semantics etc which I'd agreed to do above. They are upstream

2017-12-08 af1be2e21203 ARC: handle gcc generated __builtin_trap for older compiler
2017-12-20 f5a16b93e629 ARC: handle gcc generated __builtin_trap()

However we missed this large stack issue and the -Werror=return-type warning for ARC.

Let me check the patch again and get back here !

>
> Is Arnd's patch good to merge or do we need a fixup?
>
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Subject: bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()
>
> Looking at functions with large stack frames across all architectures led
> me discovering that BUG() suffers from the same problem as
> fortify_panic(), which I've added a workaround for already. In short,
> variables that go out of scope by calling a noreturn function or
> __builtin_unreachable() keep using stack space in functions afterwards.
>
> A workaround that was identified is to insert an empty assembler statement
> just before calling the function that doesn't return. I'm adding a macro
> "barrier_before_unreachable()" to document this, and insert calls to that
> in all instances of BUG() that currently suffer from this problem.
>
> The files that saw the largest change from this had these frame sizes
> before, and much less with my patch:
>
> fs/ext4/inode.c:82:1: warning: the frame size of 1672 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> fs/ext4/namei.c:434:1: warning: the frame size of 904 bytes is larger than 800 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

[...]

> In case of ARC and CRIS, it turns out that the BUG() implementation
> actually does return (or at least the compiler thinks it does), resulting
> in lots of warnings about uninitialized variable use and leaving noreturn
> functions, such as:
>
> block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfq_async_queue_prio':
> block/cfq-iosched.c:3804:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
> include/linux/dmaengine.h: In function 'dma_maxpq':
> include/linux/dmaengine.h:1123:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
>
> This makes them call __builtin_trap() instead, which should normally dump
> the stack and kill the current process, like some of the other
> architectures already do.
>
> I tried adding barrier_before_unreachable() to panic() and fortify_panic()
> as well, but that had very little effect, so I'm not submitting that
> patch.

[...]

>
> diff -puN arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h~bugh-work-around-gcc-pr82365-in-bug arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h
> --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h~bugh-work-around-gcc-pr82365-in-bug
> +++ a/arch/arc/include/asm/bug.h
> @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ void die(const char *str, struct pt_regs
>
> #define BUG() do { \
> pr_warn("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); \
> - dump_stack(); \
> + barrier_before_unreachable(); \
> + __builtin_trap(); \
> } while (0)

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