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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-08-08 00:35:42 +0300
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-Undefined Behavior Sanitizer - UBSAN
-
-Overview
---------
-
-UBSAN is a runtime undefined behaviour checker.
-
-UBSAN uses compile-time instrumentation to catch undefined behavior (UB).
-Compiler inserts code that perform certain kinds of checks before operations
-that may cause UB. If check fails (i.e. UB detected) __ubsan_handle_*
-function called to print error message.
-
-GCC has that feature since 4.9.x [1] (see -fsanitize=undefined option and
-its suboptions). GCC 5.x has more checkers implemented [2].
-
-Report example
----------------
-
- ================================================================================
- UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ../include/linux/bitops.h:110:33
- shift exponent 32 is to large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
- CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.4.0-rc1+ #26
- 0000000000000000 ffffffff82403cc8 ffffffff815e6cd6 0000000000000001
- ffffffff82403cf8 ffffffff82403ce0 ffffffff8163a5ed 0000000000000020
- ffffffff82403d78 ffffffff8163ac2b ffffffff815f0001 0000000000000002
- Call Trace:
- [<ffffffff815e6cd6>] dump_stack+0x45/0x5f
- [<ffffffff8163a5ed>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
- [<ffffffff8163ac2b>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0xeb/0x130
- [<ffffffff815f0001>] ? radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot+0x51/0x150
- [<ffffffff8173c586>] _mix_pool_bytes+0x1e6/0x480
- [<ffffffff83105653>] ? dmi_walk_early+0x48/0x5c
- [<ffffffff8173c881>] add_device_randomness+0x61/0x130
- [<ffffffff83105b35>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0xaa/0xaa
- [<ffffffff83105653>] dmi_walk_early+0x48/0x5c
- [<ffffffff831066ae>] dmi_scan_machine+0x278/0x4b4
- [<ffffffff8111d58a>] ? vprintk_default+0x1a/0x20
- [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
- [<ffffffff830b2240>] setup_arch+0x405/0xc2c
- [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
- [<ffffffff830ae053>] start_kernel+0x83/0x49a
- [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
- [<ffffffff830ad386>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
- [<ffffffff830ad4f3>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x16b/0x17a
- ================================================================================
-
-Usage
------
-
-To enable UBSAN configure kernel with:
-
- CONFIG_UBSAN=y
-
-and to check the entire kernel:
-
- CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y
-
-To enable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line
-similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile:
-
- For a single file (e.g. main.o):
- UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := y
-
- For all files in one directory:
- UBSAN_SANITIZE := y
-
-To exclude files from being instrumented even if
-CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y, use:
-
- UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := n
- and:
- UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
-
-Detection of unaligned accesses controlled through the separate option -
-CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT. It's off by default on architectures that support
-unaligned accesses (CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y). One could
-still enable it in config, just note that it will produce a lot of UBSAN
-reports.
-
-References
-----------
-
-[1] - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
-[2] - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html