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Qian Cai a8e911d135 x86_64: increase stack size for KASAN_EXTRA
If the kernel is configured with KASAN_EXTRA, the stack size is
increasted significantly because this option sets "-fstack-reuse" to
"none" in GCC [1].  As a result, it triggers stack overrun quite often
with 32k stack size compiled using GCC 8.  For example, this reproducer

  https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/syscalls/madvise/madvise06.c

triggers a "corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler" very reliably
with CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK enabled.

There are just too many functions that could have a large stack with
KASAN_EXTRA due to large local variables that have been called over and
over again without being able to reuse the stacks.  Some noticiable ones
are

  size
  7648 shrink_page_list
  3584 xfs_rmap_convert
  3312 migrate_page_move_mapping
  3312 dev_ethtool
  3200 migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
  3168 copy_process

There are other 49 functions are over 2k in size while compiling kernel
with "-Wframe-larger-than=" even with a related minimal config on this
machine.  Hence, it is too much work to change Makefiles for each object
to compile without "-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope" individually.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715#c23

Although there is a patch in GCC 9 to help the situation, GCC 9 probably
won't be released in a few months and then it probably take another
6-month to 1-year for all major distros to include it as a default.
Hence, the stack usage with KASAN_EXTRA can be revisited again in 2020
when GCC 9 is everywhere.  Until then, this patch will help users avoid
stack overrun.

This has already been fixed for arm64 for the same reason via
6e8830674e ("arm64: kasan: Increase stack size for KASAN_EXTRA").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190109215209.2903-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
arch x86_64: increase stack size for KASAN_EXTRA 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
block Revert "block: cover another queue enter recursion via BIO_QUEUE_ENTERED" 2019-01-27 06:35:28 -07:00
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Documentation Mostly driver fixes, but there's a core framework fix in here too. 2019-01-31 23:22:57 -08:00
drivers Second 5.0 rc pull request 2019-02-01 10:39:24 -08:00
firmware
fs proc: fix /proc/net/* after setns(2) 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
include Second 5.0 rc pull request 2019-02-01 10:39:24 -08:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-14 10:37:09 +09:00
ipc
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-27 11:55:06 -08:00
lib XArray updates for 5.0-rc3 2019-01-22 17:08:30 +13:00
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mm mm/hugetlb.c: teach follow_hugetlb_page() to handle FOLL_NOWAIT 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
net net: set default network namespace in init_dummy_netdev() 2019-01-29 11:29:55 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: workaround clang asm goto compilation errors 2019-01-15 20:57:30 +01:00
scripts Bug fixes for gcc-plugins 2019-01-21 13:07:03 +13:00
security Merge branch 'fixes-v5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-17 16:54:58 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc5 2019-01-31 10:00:00 -08:00
tools proc: fix /proc/net/* after setns(2) 2019-02-01 15:46:22 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add entry for XDP (eXpress Data Path) 2019-01-29 11:40:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc4 2019-01-27 15:18:05 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.