Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Fix "fix hypercall test" build errors

Christian Borntraeger
2022-09-22T07:05:00Z

Am 09.09.22 um 01:31 schrieb Sean Christopherson:
> After a toolchain upgrade (I think), the x86 fix_hypercall_test started
> throwing warnings due to -Werror=array-bounds rightly complaining that
> the test is generating an out-of-bounds array access.
>
> The "obvious" fix is to replace the memcpy() with a memcmp() and compare
> only the exact size of the hypercall instruction. That worked, until I
> fiddled with the code a bit more and suddenly the test started jumping into
> the weeds due to gcc generating a call to the external memcmp() through the
> PLT, which isn't supported in the selftests.
>
> To fix that mess, which has been a pitfall for quite some time, provide
> implementations of memcmp(), memcpy(), and memset() to effectively override
> the compiler built-ins. My thought is to start with the helpers that are
> most likely to be used in guest code, and then add more as needed.
>
> Tested on x86 and ARM, compile tested on RISC-V and s390. Full testing on
> RISC-V and s390 would be welcome, the seemingly benign addition of memxxx()
> helpers managed to break ARM due to gcc generating an infinite loop for
> memset() (see patch 1 for details).

Seems to run fine on s390.