[RFC] powerpc: Enable UBSAN support

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Dec 15 13:40:26 AEDT 2015


On 10/12/15 11:42, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> This hooks up UBSAN support for PowerPC.
>
> So far it's found some interesting cases where we don't properly sanitise
> input to shifts, including one in our futex handling. Nothing critical,
> but interesting and worth fixing.
>
> CC: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>
> This to be applied on top of next with Andrey's patches:
>   1) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7761341/
>   2) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7761351/
>   3) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7761361/
>   4) https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7785791/
>
> This is RFC for a couple of reasons:
>
>   - I'd like the original patches to
>     s/ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANTIZE_ALL/ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SAN*I*TIZE_ALL/
>     (I'm about to send an email about that)
>
>   - I've only tested on LE pseries so far - I want to test on powernv,
>     and on BE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>

I tested this patch as found in linux-next, along with the SANITIZE_ALL 
typo fix, on a big-endian BML system, with gcc 5.2.1. It successfully 
picked up one of the shift input issues that Daniel found, so therefore...

Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

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