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ACPI: APEI: GHES: Disable KASAN instrumentation when compile testing with clang < 18
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:27:11 +0000 (16:27 -0700)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:35:30 +0000 (21:35 +0100)
commitb584bfbd7ec417f257f651cc00a90c66e31dfbf1
treee0c2548a7f803f3897e4818f665c510bff810e7c
parent95350effc3ad62582411f59fd08a7621ac82f314
ACPI: APEI: GHES: Disable KASAN instrumentation when compile testing with clang < 18

After a recent innocuous change to drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c, building
ARCH=arm64 allmodconfig with clang-17 or older (which has both
CONFIG_KASAN=y and CONFIG_WERROR=y) fails with:

  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:902:13: error: stack frame size (2768) exceeds limit (2048) in 'ghes_do_proc' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
    902 | static void ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
        |             ^

A KASAN pass that removes unneeded stack instrumentation, enabled by
default in clang-18 [1], drastically improves stack usage in this case.

To avoid the warning in the common allmodconfig case when it can break
the build, disable KASAN for ghes.o when compile testing with clang-17
and older. Disabling KASAN outright may hide legitimate runtime issues,
so live with the warning in that case; the user can either increase the
frame warning limit or disable -Werror, which they should probably do
when debugging with KASAN anyways.

Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2148
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/51fbab134560ece663517bf1e8c2a30300d08f1a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114-ghes-avoid-wflt-clang-older-than-18-v1-1-9c8248bfe4f4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile