On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:56:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_DEBUGGING is set, we get countless warnings
> like
>
> In function 'check_copy_size',
> inlined from 'copy_from_user' at include/linux/uaccess.h:146:6,
> inlined from '__copy_siginfo_from_user' at kernel/signal.c:3032:6:
> include/linux/thread_info.h:147:4: error: call to '__bad_copy_to' declared
> with attribute error: copy destination size is too small
>
> It seems that constant propagation doesn't work well enough to make
> this code reliable, so turn it off for that configuration.
>
This is caused by __compiletime_warning() and fixed by below change
already. Could you try the latest kbuild tree?
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -86,8 +86,10 @@
#define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
#ifndef __CHECKER__
+#ifndef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_DEBUGGING
#define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
#define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message)))
+#endif
> Cc: Changbin Du<changbin...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> ---
> include/linux/thread_info.h | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> index 8d8821b3689a..762f379bdf5d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ static __always_inline bool
> check_copy_size(const void *addr, size_t bytes, bool is_source)
> {
> int sz = __compiletime_object_size(addr);
> +
> + /* constant propagation doesn't work well with -Og */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_DEBUGGING))
> + return true;
> +
> if (unlikely(sz >= 0 && sz < bytes)) {
> if (!__builtin_constant_p(bytes))
> copy_overflow(sz, bytes);
> --
> 2.18.0
>
--
Thanks,
Changbin Du
