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| author | Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org> | 2026-09-02 15:31:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3a2c4d55e32ad65efebdb6de44eef3bfa08bb49d (patch) | |
| tree | c65086f9bdcd48c6360fb7cb4598bca084da1f32 /Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst | |
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treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsgrafted
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci
This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.
Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e3591f8e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Undefined Behavior Sanitizer - UBSAN +==================================== + +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 the kernel with:: + + CONFIG_UBSAN=y + +To exclude files from being instrumented use:: + + UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := n + +and to exclude all targets in one directory use:: + + UBSAN_SANITIZE := n + +When disabled for all targets, specific files can be enabled using:: + + UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := y + +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 +.. _3: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html |
