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Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:27:03 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@...t.med.uni-muenchen.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/process: Silence KASAN warnings in get_wchan()

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:54:42AM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> On 10/06/2015 09:11 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > 
> > But what's wrong with the GCC attribute mechanism?  Surely GCC ought
> > to be able to generate the code, at least in the simple cases, and the
> > attribute already exists.  The attribute and READ_ONCE_NOCHECK seem
> > like the least messy in the C code.
> 
> The problem with 'no_sanitize_address' attribute is incompatibility with inlining. 
> GCC can't inline function with that attribute into function without it.
> And the contrary is also true - GCC can't inline function without attribute into function with such attribute.
> 
> Failure to inline always_inline function leads to build failure.

So just don't do that?  Don't set the attribute on functions marked inline.
Where do you see this anyways?


-Andi
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