When booting an allmodconfig kernel, there are a lot of false-positives.
With a message like this 'UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in...' with a call
trace that follows.
UBSAN warnings are a result of enabling noisy CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
which is disabled by default if HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y.
It's noisy even if don't have efficient unaligned access, e.g. people
often add __cacheline_aligned_in_smp in structs, but forget to align
allocations of such struct (kmalloc() give 8-byte alignment in worst
case).
Rework so that when building a allmodconfig kernel that turns everything
into '=m' or '=y' will turn off UBSAN_ALIGNMENT.
[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: changelog addition]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217150326.30933-1-anders.roxell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enabling this option will get kernel image size increased
significantly.
-config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
- bool "Enable checking of pointers alignment"
+config UBSAN_NO_ALIGNMENT
+ bool "Disable checking of pointers alignment"
depends on UBSAN
- default y if !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
+ default y if HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
help
- This option enables detection of unaligned memory accesses.
- Enabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
+ This option disables the check of unaligned memory accesses.
+ This option should be used when building allmodconfig.
+ Disabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
accesses may produce a lot of false positives.
+config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
+ def_bool !UBSAN_NO_ALIGNMENT
+
config TEST_UBSAN
tristate "Module for testing for undefined behavior detection"
depends on m && UBSAN