tree 02fe8e45925374df2070bfba9d1f09fcd6086b08
parent 448602037f1b69f78484248891483f8da12c83b1
author Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 1567573348 +0000
committer Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> 1567573348 +0000

bug: move WARN_ON() "cut here" into exception handler

The original clean up of "cut here" missed the WARN_ON() case (that does
not have a printk message), which was fixed recently by adding an explicit
printk of "cut here".  This had the downside of adding a printk() to every
WARN_ON() caller, which reduces the utility of using an instruction
exception to streamline the resulting code.  By making this a new BUGFLAG,
all of these can be removed and "cut here" can be handled by the exception
handler.

This was very pronounced on PowerPC, but the effect can be seen on x86 as
well.  The resulting text size of a defconfig build shows some small
savings from this patch:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
19691167        5134320 1646664 26472151        193eed7 vmlinux.before
19676362        5134260 1663048 26473670        193f4c6 vmlinux.after

This change also opens the door for creating something like BUG_MSG(),
where a custom printk() before issuing BUG(), without confusing the "cut
here" line.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201908200943.601DD59DCE@keescook
Fixes: 6b15f678fb7d ("include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Drew Davenport <ddavenport@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>