Re: Remaining randconfig objtool warnings, linux-next-20200428

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri May 01 2020 - 13:50:32 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 07:26:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 07:21:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 4:05 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > it gets into undefined behavior and stops emitting code after the call to
>
> > Do we consider this expected behavior on gcc's side, or is it something
> > that should not happen and needs a gcc bug report?
>
> When it hits UB it is of course free to do whatever it damn well
> pleases, but just stopping code gen seems a little extreme, at least
> issue a WARN that something is up or so.
>
> Not sure how the GCC folks feel about this though.

When we've seen truncated code flow like this in the past, it's either
been a code bug (undefined behavior) or a GCC bug. So this is new.

Is it only seen with GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV enabled? Maybe (hopefully) it's
an issue with the plugin and how it interacts with GCC 10.

--
Josh