linux-kernel - Re: 1808d65b55 ("asm-generic/tlb: Remove arch_tlb*_mmu()"): BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __change_page_attr_set

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Message-ID: <5890.1555087830@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:50:30 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, LKP <lkp@...org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Subject: Re: 1808d65b55 ("asm-generic/tlb: Remove arch_tlb*_mmu()"): BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in __change_page_attr_set_clr

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> We should never have stack alignment bigger than 16 bytes.  And
> preferably not even that.

At least one arch I know of (FRV) had instructions that could atomically
load/store register pairs or register quads, but they had to be pair- or
quad-aligned (ie. 8- or 16-byte), which made for more efficient code if you
could use them.

I don't know whether any arch we currently support has features like this (I
know some have multi-reg load/stores, but they seem to require only
word-alignment).

David