From 7771bdbbfd3d6f204631b6fd9e1bbc30cd15918e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:41:20 -0800 Subject: kasan: remove use after scope bugs detection. Use after scope bugs detector seems to be almost entirely useless for the linux kernel. It exists over two years, but I've seen only one valid bug so far [1]. And the bug was fixed before it has been reported. There were some other use-after-scope reports, but they were false-positives due to different reasons like incompatibility with structleak plugin. This feature significantly increases stack usage, especially with GCC < 9 version, and causes a 32K stack overflow. It probably adds performance penalty too. Given all that, let's remove use-after-scope detector entirely. While preparing this patch I've noticed that we mistakenly enable use-after-scope detection for clang compiler regardless of CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA setting. This is also fixed now. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20171129052106.rhgbjhhis53hkgfn@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111185842.13978-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Will Deacon [arm64] Cc: Qian Cai Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.kasan') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 9737059ec58b..9950b660e62d 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -78,16 +78,6 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS endchoice -config KASAN_EXTRA - bool "KASAN: extra checks" - depends on KASAN_GENERIC && DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST - help - This enables further checks in generic KASAN, for now it only - includes the address-use-after-scope check that can lead to - excessive kernel stack usage, frame size warnings and longer - compile time. - See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715 - choice prompt "Instrumentation type" depends on KASAN -- cgit v1.2.3