Re: [PATCH] framewarn: expand KASAN_EXTRA exception to KASAN

Andrey Ryabinin
2018-09-21T09:25:07Z

On 09/21/2018 04:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This patch seems reasonable, but you emailed the wrong people :)
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:15 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>>
>> It turns out that KASAN in general will bloat stack frames in unexpected
>> ways, not just KASAN_EXTRA. So, this patch trivially changes that
>> default to be associated with KASAN instead of KASAN_EXTRA.
>>

KASAN_EXTRA bloats stack more than just KASAN, that's why the limit is higher than just for KASAN.
If want more details, tead the changelog from commit e7c52b84fb18f08ce49b6067ae6285aca79084a8

If anything causes "stack frame > 2048" warning for KASAN we should at least try to fix it,
I mean reduce stack usage.

>> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>> ---
>> lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
>> index 4966c4fbe7f7..39078a080e29 100644
>> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
>> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
>> @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
>> config FRAME_WARN
>> int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
>> range 0 8192
>> - default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
>> + default 3072 if KASAN
>> default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
>> default 1280 if (!64BIT && PARISC)
>> default 1024 if (!64BIT && !PARISC)
>> --
>> 2.19.0
>>