Re: objtool warning "uses BP as a scratch register" with clang-9

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:13:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:22 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I figured this one out as well:
> 
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XjdDsypRxX/
> > 0x5BA1B7A1:arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.o: warning: objtool:
> > ia32_setup_rt_frame()+0x238: call to memset() with UACCESS enabled
> > 0x5BA1B7A1:arch/x86/kernel/signal.o: warning: objtool:
> > __setup_rt_frame()+0x5b8: call to memset() with UACCESS enabled
> 
> When CONFIG_KASAN is set, clang decides to use memset() to set
> the first two struct members in this function:
> 
>  static inline void sas_ss_reset(struct task_struct *p)
>  {
>         p->sas_ss_sp = 0;
>         p->sas_ss_size = 0;
>         p->sas_ss_flags = SS_DISABLE;
>  }
> 
> and that is called from save_altstack_ex(). Adding a barrier() after
> the sas_ss_sp() works around the issue, but is certainly not the
> best solution. Any other ideas?

Wow, is the compiler allowed to insert memset calls like that?  Seems a
bit overbearing, at least in a kernel context.  I don't recall GCC ever
doing it.

-- 
Josh