On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:03 PM Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> asan-stack mode still uses dangerously large kernel stacks of
> tens of kilobytes in some drivers, and it does not seem that anyone
> is working on the clang bug.

Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>

>
> Turn it off for all clang versions to prevent users from
> accidentally enabling it once they update to clang-9, and
> to help automated build testing with clang-9.
>
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
> Fixes: 6baec880d7a5 ("kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> ---
> v2: disable the feature for all clang versions, not just 9 and below.
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 4fafba1a923b..7fa97a8b5717 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ endchoice
>
>  config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
>         bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && 
> !COMPILE_TEST
> -       default !(CLANG_VERSION < 90000)
>         depends on KASAN
>         help
>           The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
> @@ -115,11 +114,11 @@ config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
>           Disabling asan-stack makes it safe to run kernels build
>           with clang-8 with KASAN enabled, though it loses some of
>           the functionality.
> -         This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang-8
> -         or earlier to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow
> -         warnings, but clang-8 users can still enable it for builds without
> -         CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST.  On gcc and later clang versions it is
> -         assumed to always be safe to use and enabled by default.
> +         This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang
> +         to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow warnings,
> +         but clang users can still enable it for builds without
> +         CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST.  On gcc it is assumed to always be safe
> +         to use and enabled by default.
>
>  config KASAN_STACK
>         int
> --
> 2.20.0
>
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-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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