Re: [PATCH] ubifs: work around high stack usage with clang

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 13:57:14 EST


On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:45 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Building this file with clang can result in large stack usage as seen from
> this warning:
>
> fs/ubifs/auth.c:78:5: error: stack frame size of 1152 bytes in function 'ubifs_prepare_auth_node'
>
> The problem is that inlining ubifs_hash_calc_hmac() leads to
> two SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK() blocks in the same function, and clang
> for some reason does not reuse the stack space as it should.
>
> Putting the first declaration into a separate basic block avoids
> this problem and reduces the stack allocation to 640 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

LGTM; in general, it can be useful to always include a comment before
a new scope like:

/* New scope to limit lifetime of large stack allocated hash_desc. */

but folks can always refer to the git blame/log for reasoning as to
why a new scope was added.

I plan on working on a pass in LLVM to improve stack slot reuse
sometime in 2019Q2. Thanks for this patch.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> fs/ubifs/auth.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/auth.c b/fs/ubifs/auth.c
> index 5bf5fd08879e..5d3d0b37a908 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/auth.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/auth.c
> @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ static int ubifs_hash_calc_hmac(const struct ubifs_info *c, const u8 *hash,
> int ubifs_prepare_auth_node(struct ubifs_info *c, void *node,
> struct shash_desc *inhash)
> {
> - SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(hash_desc, c->hash_tfm);
> struct ubifs_auth_node *auth = node;
> u8 *hash;
> int err;
> @@ -87,13 +86,17 @@ int ubifs_prepare_auth_node(struct ubifs_info *c, void *node,
> if (!hash)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - hash_desc->tfm = c->hash_tfm;
> - hash_desc->flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;
> - ubifs_shash_copy_state(c, inhash, hash_desc);
> + {
> + SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK(hash_desc, c->hash_tfm);
>
> - err = crypto_shash_final(hash_desc, hash);
> - if (err)
> - goto out;
> + hash_desc->tfm = c->hash_tfm;
> + hash_desc->flags = CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP;
> + ubifs_shash_copy_state(c, inhash, hash_desc);
> +
> + err = crypto_shash_final(hash_desc, hash);
> + if (err)
> + goto out;
> + }
>
> err = ubifs_hash_calc_hmac(c, hash, auth->hmac);
> if (err)
> --
> 2.20.0
>


--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers