[PATCH] powerpc/kasan: Limit KASAN thread size increase to 32KB

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Feb 12 17:42:44 AEDT 2024


KASAN is seen to increase stack usage, to the point that it was reported
to lead to stack overflow on some 32-bit machines (see link).

To avoid overflows the stack size was doubled for KASAN builds in
commit 3e8635fb2e07 ("powerpc/kasan: Force thread size increase with
KASAN").

However with a 32KB stack size to begin with, the doubling leads to a
64KB stack, which causes build errors:
  arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S:249: Error: operand out of range (0x000000000000fe50 is not between 0xffffffffffff8000 and 0x0000000000007fff)

Although the asm could be reworked, in practice a 32KB stack seems
sufficient even for KASAN builds - the additional usage seems to be in
the 2-3KB range for a 64-bit KASAN build.

So only increase the stack for KASAN if the stack size is < 32KB.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/bug-207129-206035@https.bugzilla.kernel.org%2F/
Reported-by: Spoorthy <spoorthy at linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray at linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 18f14afe2816 ("powerpc/64s: Increase default stack size to 32KB")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
index bf5dde1a4114..15c5691dd218 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) && CONFIG_THREAD_SHIFT < 15
 #define MIN_THREAD_SHIFT	(CONFIG_THREAD_SHIFT + 1)
 #else
 #define MIN_THREAD_SHIFT	CONFIG_THREAD_SHIFT
-- 
2.43.0



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