From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] tty: kbd: reduce stack size with KASAN
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:02:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170616130215.GC31057@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a32abgm7H7s=dOTkLus3K9o79hRJ31s0eyEVZW30E9p7g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 02:01:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 06:52:21AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:15:38PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> > As reported by kernelci, some functions in the VT code use significant
> >> > amounts of kernel stack when local variables get inlined into the caller
> >> > multiple times:
> >> >
> >> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c: In function 'kbd_keycode':
> >> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1452:1: error: the frame size of 2240 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> >> >
> >> > Annotating those functions as noinline_if_stackbloat prevents the inlining
> >> > and reduces the overall stack usage in this driver.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> > ---
> >> > drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 6 +++---
> >> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> >> > index f4166263bb3a..c0d111444a0e 100644
> >> > --- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> >> > @@ -301,13 +301,13 @@ int kbd_rate(struct kbd_repeat *rpt)
> >> > /*
> >> > * Helper Functions.
> >> > */
> >> > -static void put_queue(struct vc_data *vc, int ch)
> >> > +static noinline_if_stackbloat void put_queue(struct vc_data *vc, int ch)
> >> > {
> >> > tty_insert_flip_char(&vc->port, ch, 0);
> >> > tty_schedule_flip(&vc->port);
> >> > }
> >>
> >> Ugh, really? We have to start telling gcc not to be stupid here?
> >> That's not going to be easy, and will just entail us doing this all over
> >> the place, right?
> >>
> >> The code isn't asking to be inlined, so why is gcc allowing it to be
> >> done that way? Doesn't that imply gcc is the problem here?
> >
> > Wait, you are now, in this patch, _asking_ for it to be inlined. How is
> > that solving anything?
>
> The three functions that gain the attribute are all those that gcc decided
> to inline for itself. Usually gcc makes reasonable inlining decisions, so
> I left the existing behavior my marking them as 'inline' without
> CONFIG_KASAN and 'noinline' when KASAN is enabled.
But why should we have to care about this? If gcc wanted to inline
them, and it did so in a way that blows up the stack, that would be a
gcc bug, right? Why do I have to tell gcc "don't inline", when really,
I never told it to inline it in the first place?
> Would you rather see this patch instead?
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/tty_flip.h b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
> index c28dd523f96e..25348c5ffcb7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tty_flip.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
> @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ extern int tty_prepare_flip_string(struct tty_port *port,
> extern void tty_flip_buffer_push(struct tty_port *port);
> void tty_schedule_flip(struct tty_port *port);
>
> -static inline int tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_port *port,
> - unsigned char ch, char flag)
> +static noinline_if_stackbloat int
> +tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_port *port, unsigned char ch, char flag)
> {
> struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;
> int change;
>
> This is just as good at eliminating the crazy stack usage in vt/keyboard.o,
> but it will also impact all other users of that function.
How is this function blowing up the stack? We have 2 variables being
added, that's it. Are we really that low on stack that 2 words is too
much?
And no, we shouldn't need to do this. It sounds like ksan is the
problem here...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-16 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-14 21:15 [PATCH v2 00/11] bring back stack frame warning with KASAN Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] compiler: introduce noinline_if_stackbloat annotation Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] netlink: mark nla_put_{u8,u16,u32} noinline_if_stackbloat Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] tty: kbd: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:28 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-14 21:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 22:16 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-15 4:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-15 4:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-16 12:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-16 13:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2017-06-16 15:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-16 15:58 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-06-16 17:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-06-16 20:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-16 21:07 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-06-16 17:14 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] rocker: mark rocker_tlv_put_* functions as noinline_if_stackbloat Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] mtd: cfi: reduce stack size with KASAN Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-04 7:42 ` Boris Brezillon
2017-08-04 9:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-08-04 10:56 ` Boris Brezillon
2017-08-04 10:57 ` Boris Brezillon
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] dvb-frontends: reduce stack size in i2c access Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-24 19:49 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] r820t: mark register functions as noinline_if_stackbloat Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] brcmsmac: make some local variables 'static const' to reduce stack size Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-15 14:56 ` Kalle Valo
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] brcmsmac: split up wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] brcmsmac: reindent split functions Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] kasan: rework Kconfig settings Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-15 7:02 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-06-16 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-16 11:44 ` Dmitry Vyukov
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