Re: [PATCH] ubsan: remove overflow checks

On 2/10/21 3:19 AM, Kees Cook wrote:

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:23:48AM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

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Since GCC 8.0 -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow doesn't work with -fwrapv.
-fwrapv makes signed overflows defines and GCC essentially disables
ubsan checks. On GCC < 8.0 -fwrapv doesn't have influence on
-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow setting, so it kinda works
but generates false-positves and violates uaccess rules:

lib/iov_iter.o: warning: objtool: iovec_from_user()+0x22d: call to __ubsan_handle_add_overflow() with UACCESS enabled

Disable signed overflow checks to avoid these problems.
Remove unsigned overflow checks as well.
Unsigned overflow appeared as side effect of the commit
 cdf8a76fda4a ("ubsan: move cc-option tests into Kconfig"),
but it never worked (kernel doesn't boot). And unsigned overflows
are allowed by C standard, so it just pointless.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>

NAK, please don't remove the entire thing. I want this to work again
with -fwrapv, and it's not entirely broken under Clang. But the feature
shouldn't be removed from the kernel.

This is dead code. How exactly it's useful to keep it? You can always resurrect it later when you'll need it.
Clang has the same behavior as GCC > 8, signed-integer-overflow does nothing when compiled -fwrapv or -fno-strict-overflow