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Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild

From Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild
Date 2016-12-19 12:00 +0100
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On 2016-12-15 19:09, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was doing some kasan-related debugging and when I enabled it I started
> getting warnings for large stackframes. So CONFIG_FRAME_WARN has :
> 
> int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
>     range 0 8192
>     default 0 if KASAN
>     default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
>     default 1024 if !64BIT
>     default 2048 if 64BIT
> 
> This means that frame_warns should effectively be disabled when kasan is
> enabled. However in my case this is not the situation.
> http://sprunge.us/FiGf here is the config file. It does have
> CONFIG_KASAN=y and CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024 . And even this is erroneous
> since it's a 64bit kernel, so it should be 2k. I haven't manually set
> the limit to 1k either.

I guess the problem is that it's an option with a propt, so deviating
from the default value is legitimate. And most likely the
value is computed during menuconfig startup and a subsequent change of
CONFIG_KASAN does not change it (because 2048 or 1048 are also valid).

Michal

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default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> - 2016-12-15 19:20 +0100
  Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-12-15 22:40 +0100
    Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> - 2016-12-16 09:00 +0100
    Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> - 2016-12-16 09:00 +0100
  Re: default 0 if KASAN expression not working in kbuild Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-12-19 12:00 +0100

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