[PATCH 01/26] compiler: introduce noinline_for_kasan annotation

Arnd Bergmann
2017-03-02T17:11:18Z

When CONFIG_KASAN is set, we can run into some code that uses incredible
amounts of kernel stack:

drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_neo.c:1056:1: error: the frame size of 11112 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c:4960:1: error: the frame size of 94000 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3430:1: error: the frame size of 5312 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

This happens when a sanitizer uses stack memory each time an inline function
gets called. This introduces a new annotation for those functions to make
them either 'inline' or 'noinline' dependning on the CONFIG_KASAN symbol.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index f8110051188f..56b90897a459 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -416,6 +416,17 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
*/
#define noinline_for_stack noinline

+/*
+ * CONFIG_KASAN can lead to extreme stack usage with certain patterns when
+ * one function gets inlined many times and each instance requires a stack
+ * ckeck.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+#define noinline_for_kasan noinline __maybe_unused
+#else
+#define noinline_for_kasan inline
+#endif
+
#ifndef __always_inline
#define __always_inline inline
#endif
--
2.9.0