Random arrays on kernel stack..

[Linus Torvalds]

So I finally have an arm64 laptop that I'm playing with, and as a
result building the kernel the way I usually do - with warnings as
errors.

And I get this:

  drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c: In function ‘root_remove_peer_lists’:
  drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c:77:1: error: the frame size of
1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
     77 | }
        | ^
  drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c: In function ‘root_free_rcu’:
  drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c:64:1: error: the frame size of
1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
     64 | }
        | ^

and clearly it only happens for me because it turns out Asahi has for
some odd reason picked that low CONFIG_FRAME_WARN of just 1kB.

So the fix for the warning was just to update my .config file, no biggie.

But when I look at the code that generates that warning, it just
worries me. It has that magical constant 128.

Sure, that same constant is also in push_rcu().

And there it is randomly as a warning, and then it will happily
overflow the stack frame.

That's not ok.

I think that

 (a) that constant should be a bit lower, so that we *can* use a 1kB
stack frame warning on 64-bit architectures

 (b) it should be documented some way as a #define

 (c) push_rcu() should damn well not "warn and corrupt the stack". It
should warn-and-not-corrupt the stack, even if that then means that
the thing isn't pushed at all.

Hmm?

                 Linus