Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

Nathan Chancellor
2021-09-08T20:55:06Z

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 11:11:17AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:32 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: crypto/wp512.c:782:13: error: stack frame size (1176) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'wp512_process_buffer' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-debugfs.c:294:12: error: stack frame size (1256) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'bpmp_debug_show' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/firmware/tegra/bpmp-debugfs.c:357:16: error: stack frame size (1264) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'bpmp_debug_store' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/calcs/dce_calcs.c:3043:6: error: stack frame size (1384) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'bw_calcs' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/calcs/dce_calcs.c:77:13: error: stack frame size (5560) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'calculate_bandwidth' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c:1872:12: error: stack frame size (1064) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'cfi_intelext_writev' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/ntb/hw/idt/ntb_hw_idt.c:1041:27: error: stack frame size (1032) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'idt_scan_mws' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c:902:12: error: stack frame size (1072) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'fbtft_init_display_from_property' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c:992:5: error: stack frame size (1064) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'fbtft_init_display' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-allmodconfig.log: drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_security.c:1288:5: error: stack frame size (1040) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'rtw_aes_decrypt' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-fedora.log: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/calcs/dce_calcs.c:3043:6: error: stack frame size (1376) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'bw_calcs' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> > arm32-fedora.log: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/calcs/dce_calcs.c:77:13: error: stack frame size (5384) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'calculate_bandwidth' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
> >
> > Aside from the dce_calcs.c warnings, these do not seem too bad. I
> > believe allmodconfig turns on UBSAN but it could also be aggressive
> > inlining by clang. I intend to look at all -Wframe-large-than warnings
> > closely later.
>
> I've had them close to zero in the past, but a couple of new ones came in.
>
> The amdgpu ones are probably not fixable unless they stop using 64-bit
> floats in the kernel for
> random calculations. The crypto/* ones tend to be compiler bugs, but hard to fix

I have started taking a look at these. Most of the allmodconfig ones
appear to be related to CONFIG_KASAN, which is now supported for
CONFIG_ARM.

The two in bpmp-debugfs.c appear regardless of CONFIG_KASAN and it turns
out that you actually submitted a patch for these:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204193714.3134651-1-arnd@kernel.org/

Is it worth resending or pinging that?

The dce_calcs.c ones also appear without CONFIG_KASAN, which you noted
is probably unavoidable.

The other ones only appear with CONFIG_KASAN. I have not investigated
each instance to see exactly how much KASAN makes the stack blow up.
Perhaps it is worth setting the default of CONFIG_FRAME_WARN to a higher
value with clang+COMPILE_TEST+KASAN?

> > It appears that both Arch Linux and Fedora define CONFIG_FRAME_WARN
> > as 1024, below its default of 2048. I am not sure these look particurly
> > scary (although there are some that are rather large that need to be
> > looked at).
>
> For 64-bit, you usually need 1280 bytes stack space to get a
> reasonably clean build,
> anything that uses more than that tends to be a bug in the code but we
> never warned
> about those by default as the default warning limit in defconfig is 2048.
>
> I think the distros using 1024 did that because they use a common base config
> for 32-bit and 64-bit targets.

That is a fair explanation.

> > I suspect this is a backend problem because these do not really appear
> > in any other configurations (might also be something with a sanitizer?)
>
> Agreed. Someone needs to bisect the .config or the compiler flags to see what
> triggers them.

For other people following along, there were a lot of
-Wframe-larger-than instances from RISC-V allmodconfig.

Turns out this is because CONFIG_KASAN_STACK is not respected with
RISC-V. They do not set CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET so following along in
scripts/Makefile.kasan, CFLAGS_KASAN_SHADOW does not get set to
anything, which means that only '-fsanitize=kernel-address' gets added
to the command line, with none of the other parameters.

I guess there are a couple of ways to tackle this:

1. RISC-V could implement CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET. They mention that
the logic of KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET was taken from arm64 but they did
not borrow the Kconfig logic it seems.

2. asan-stack could be hoisted out of the else branch so that it is
always enabled/disabled regardless of KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET being
defined, which resolved all of these warnings for me in my testing.

I am adding the KASAN and RISC-V folks to CC for this reason.

Cheers,
Nathan