linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 10:21:02 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

> [   14.998426] BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
> [   14.998426]
> [   15.007061] Invalid read at 0x(ptrval):
> [   15.010906]  finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
> [   15.015633]  kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0xd0
> [   15.019682]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x30
> [   15.025099]  kthread+0x15c/0x174
> [   15.028359]  ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
> [   15.032747]
> [   15.034251] CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B
> 5.12.0-rc1-s3k-dev-01534-g4f14ae75edf0-dirty #4674
> [   15.045811] ==================================================================
> [   15.053324]     # test_invalid_access: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kfence/kfence_test.c:636
> [   15.053324]     Expected report_matches(&expect) to be true, but is false
> [   15.068359]     not ok 21 - test_invalid_access

The test expects the function name to be test_invalid_access, i. e.
the first line should be "BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in
test_invalid_access".
The error reporting function unwinds the stack, skips a couple of
"uninteresting" frames
(https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc1/source/mm/kfence/report.c#L43)
and uses the first "interesting" one frame to print the report header
(https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc1/source/mm/kfence/report.c#L226).

It's strange that test_invalid_access is missing altogether from the
stack trace - is that expected?
Can you try printing the whole stacktrace without skipping any frames
to see if that function is there?