Hi Andrey,

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:28:07 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin [off-list ref] wrote:

Some code may perform racy by design memory reads. This could be harmless,
yet such code may produce KASAN warnings.

To hide such accesses from KASAN this patch introduces READ_ONCE_NOCHECK()
macro. KASAN will not check the memory accessed by READ_ONCE_NOCHECK().

This patch creates __read_once_size_nocheck() a clone of
__read_once_size_check() (renamed __read_once_size()).
The only difference between them is 'no_sanitized_address' attribute
appended to '*_nocheck' function. This attribute tells the compiler that
instrumentation of memory accesses should not be applied to that function.
We declare it as static '__maybe_unsed' because GCC is not capable to
inline such function: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67368

With KASAN=n READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() is just a clone of READ_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <redacted>
---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 13 ++++++++++
 include/linux/compiler.h     | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

I am pretty sure that this patch is causing quite a bit of compile
breakage in linux-next today.  During the day I compile with gcc 4.9.0
and did not see any problems with c86_64 allmodconfig, or i386
defconfig etc, but overnight we compile with older compilers (gcc 4.6.3
in particular) and are getting quite a few errors:

From an i386 allnoconfig build:

arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg: undefined symbols found
/home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile:154: recipe for target 'arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg' failed

From an x86_64 allnoconfig build:

arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.o: In function `__read_once_size_check':
vclock_gettime.c:(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `memcpy'
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vgetcpu.o: In function `__read_once_size_check':
vgetcpu.c:(.text+0x2f): undefined reference to `memcpy'

and several others ...
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au