Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] UBSan: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

Anyone knows why wasn't this merged a year ago? I didn't see any review comments, and it
ended up finding real bugs.

On 11/14/2014 07:50 AM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Next spin of UBSan and there are two patches from now.
> "Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the UBSan,
> the other to not deadlock it."
> 
> Patches on top of v3.18-rc4. As usual they are available in git:
> 	git://github.com/aryabinin/linux ubsan/v2
> 
> Changes since v1:
>    - Refactoring and cleanups in lib/ubsan.c including Sasha's complains.
>    - Some spelling fixes from Randy
>    - Fixed possible memory corruption on 64 big endian machines, spotted by Rasmus.
>    - Links to the relevant GCC documentation added into changelog (Peter).
>    - Added documentation.
>    - Fix deadlock caused by kernel/printk/printk.c instrumentation
>         (patch "kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log").
>    - Dropped useless 'Indirect call of a function through a function pointer of the wrong type'
>      checker. GCC doesn't support this, and as clang manual says it's for C++ only.
>    - Added checker for __builtin_unreachable() calls.
>    - Removed redundant -fno-sanitize=float-cast-overflow from CFLAGS.
>    - Added lock to prevent mixing reports.
> 
> Andrey Ryabinin (2):
>   kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log
>   UBSan: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker
> 
>  Documentation/ubsan.txt               |  69 +++++
>  Makefile                              |  10 +-
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                      |   1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile                |   1 +
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile     |   1 +
>  arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile         |   1 +
>  arch/x86/vdso/Makefile                |   2 +
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile |   1 +
>  include/linux/sched.h                 |   3 +
>  kernel/printk/printk.c                |  10 +-
>  lib/Kconfig.debug                     |  22 ++
>  lib/Makefile                          |   3 +
>  lib/ubsan.c                           | 567 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/ubsan.h                           |  84 +++++
>  scripts/Makefile.lib                  |   6 +
>  15 files changed, 775 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ubsan.txt
>  create mode 100644 lib/ubsan.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/ubsan.h
>