linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 2/3] lib/ubsan: default UBSAN

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Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:29:09 +0100
From:   Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com, arnd@...db.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        broonie@...nel.org, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/3] lib/ubsan: default UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to not set

When booting an allmodconfig kernel, there are a lot of false-positives.
With a message like this 'UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in...' with a call
trace that follows.

Reworked so that when building a allmodconfig kernel that turns
everything into '=m' or '=y' will turn off UBSAN_ALIGNMENT.

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
---
 lib/Kconfig.ubsan | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
index 98fa559ebd80..a2ae4a8e4fa6 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
@@ -27,15 +27,19 @@ config UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
 	  Enabling this option will get kernel image size increased
 	  significantly.
 
-config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
-	bool "Enable checking of pointers alignment"
+config UBSAN_NO_ALIGNMENT
+	bool "Disable checking of pointers alignment"
 	depends on UBSAN
-	default y if !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
+	default y if HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 	help
-	  This option enables detection of unaligned memory accesses.
-	  Enabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
+	  This option disables the check of unaligned memory accesses.
+	  This option should be used when building allmodconfig.
+	  Disabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
 	  accesses may produce a lot of false positives.
 
+config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
+	def_bool !UBSAN_NO_ALIGNMENT
+
 config TEST_UBSAN
 	tristate "Module for testing for undefined behavior detection"
 	depends on m && UBSAN
-- 
2.19.2