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      1The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer - UBSAN
      2========================================
      3
      4UBSAN is a runtime undefined behaviour checker.
      5
      6UBSAN uses compile-time instrumentation to catch undefined behavior (UB).
      7Compiler inserts code that perform certain kinds of checks before operations
      8that may cause UB. If check fails (i.e. UB detected) __ubsan_handle_*
      9function called to print error message.
     10
     11GCC has that feature since 4.9.x [1_] (see ``-fsanitize=undefined`` option and
     12its suboptions). GCC 5.x has more checkers implemented [2_].
     13
     14Report example
     15--------------
     16
     17::
     18
     19	 ================================================================================
     20	 UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ../include/linux/bitops.h:110:33
     21	 shift exponent 32 is to large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
     22	 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.4.0-rc1+ #26
     23	  0000000000000000 ffffffff82403cc8 ffffffff815e6cd6 0000000000000001
     24	  ffffffff82403cf8 ffffffff82403ce0 ffffffff8163a5ed 0000000000000020
     25	  ffffffff82403d78 ffffffff8163ac2b ffffffff815f0001 0000000000000002
     26	 Call Trace:
     27	  [<ffffffff815e6cd6>] dump_stack+0x45/0x5f
     28	  [<ffffffff8163a5ed>] ubsan_epilogue+0xd/0x40
     29	  [<ffffffff8163ac2b>] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0xeb/0x130
     30	  [<ffffffff815f0001>] ? radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot+0x51/0x150
     31	  [<ffffffff8173c586>] _mix_pool_bytes+0x1e6/0x480
     32	  [<ffffffff83105653>] ? dmi_walk_early+0x48/0x5c
     33	  [<ffffffff8173c881>] add_device_randomness+0x61/0x130
     34	  [<ffffffff83105b35>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0xaa/0xaa
     35	  [<ffffffff83105653>] dmi_walk_early+0x48/0x5c
     36	  [<ffffffff831066ae>] dmi_scan_machine+0x278/0x4b4
     37	  [<ffffffff8111d58a>] ? vprintk_default+0x1a/0x20
     38	  [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
     39	  [<ffffffff830b2240>] setup_arch+0x405/0xc2c
     40	  [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
     41	  [<ffffffff830ae053>] start_kernel+0x83/0x49a
     42	  [<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
     43	  [<ffffffff830ad386>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
     44	  [<ffffffff830ad4f3>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x16b/0x17a
     45	 ================================================================================
     46
     47Usage
     48-----
     49
     50To enable UBSAN configure kernel with::
     51
     52	CONFIG_UBSAN=y
     53
     54and to check the entire kernel::
     55
     56        CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y
     57
     58To enable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line
     59similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile:
     60
     61- For a single file (e.g. main.o)::
     62
     63    UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := y
     64
     65- For all files in one directory::
     66
     67    UBSAN_SANITIZE := y
     68
     69To exclude files from being instrumented even if
     70``CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y``, use::
     71
     72  UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := n
     73
     74and::
     75
     76  UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
     77
     78Detection of unaligned accesses controlled through the separate option -
     79CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT. It's off by default on architectures that support
     80unaligned accesses (CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y). One could
     81still enable it in config, just note that it will produce a lot of UBSAN
     82reports.
     83
     84References
     85----------
     86
     87.. _1: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
     88.. _2: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
     89.. _3: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html