linux-kernel - GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT being set breaks 5.8-rc2 build

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:50:19 +0530
From:   Caleb Jorden <cjorden@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT being set breaks 5.8-rc2 build

Hi everyone,

I was trying to test out the 5.8-rc2 kernel using my standard
machine-specific config, but my build kept failing.  I ended up
comparing against the x86_64_defconfig configuration (which worked)
using the config-bisect.pl script, and discovered that if
GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT is set, I get this error:

--------------------
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7,
                 from ./include/linux/llist.h:51,
                 from ./include/linux/irq_work.h:5,
                 from kernel/smp.c:10:
kernel/smp.c: In function ‘smp_init’:
./include/linux/compiler.h:392:38: error: call to
‘__compiletime_assert_157’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON
failed: offsetof(struct task_struct, wake_entry_type) -
offsetof(struct task_struct, wake_entry) != offsetof(struct
__call_single_data, flags) - offsetof(struct __call_single_data,
llist)
  392 |  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
      |                                      ^
./include/linux/compiler.h:373:4: note: in definition of macro
‘__compiletime_assert’
  373 |    prefix ## suffix();    \
      |    ^~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:392:2: note: in expansion of macro
‘_compiletime_assert’
  392 |  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/build_bug.h:39:37: note: in expansion of macro
‘compiletime_assert’
   39 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg)
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/build_bug.h:50:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG’
   50 |  BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(condition, "BUILD_BUG_ON failed: " #condition)
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/smp.c:687:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON’
  687 |  BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct task_struct, wake_entry_type) -
offsetof(struct task_struct, wake_entry) !=
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
  CC      fs/fs_context.o
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:281: kernel/smp.o] Error 1
--------------------

I am able to reproduce this error now if I use the x86_64_defconfig,
and simply set GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT from the configuration tree in:
- General architecture-dependent options
  - GCC plugins
    [x] Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures

It appears the cause is this commit:
---------------------
commit a148866489fbe243c936fe43e4525d8dbfa0318f
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Date:   Tue May 26 18:11:04 2020 +0200

    sched: Replace rq::wake_list
---------------------

I am observing these build failures on GCC 9.3.0 (Gentoo) and GCC
10.1.0 (Manjaro) using the 5.8-rc2 kernel from git
(48778464bb7d346b47157d21ffde2af6b2d39110).

I am not on the kernel mailing list, if there is anything I can do to
assist with fixing this, please copy me directly.

Thanks!

Caleb Jorden
cjorden@...il.com