Re: X86: build failure

[Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2025-12-17 08:13, Nicola Vetrini wrote:
> On 2025-12-17 01:12, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On 17.12.25 01:54, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > On 16/12/2025 11:35 pm, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I experience build failure with following Kconfig combination:
> > > >   CONFIG_DEBUG=n and CONFIG_XEN_IBT=n
> > > >
> > > > with gcc:
> > > >   gcc --version
> > > >   gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.2) 11.4.0
> > > >   Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > >   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  
> > > > There
> > > > is NO
> > > >   warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> > > > PURPOSE.
> > > >
> > > > Is this known issue?
> > > >
> > > > ====== log ===============
> > > >    CC      arch/x86/x86_emulate.o
> > > > In file included from arch/x86/x86_emulate.c:27:
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c: In function ‘x86_emulate’:
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:70:36: error: writing 1 byte into 
> > > > a
> > > > region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
> > > >     70 |     gcc11_wrap(ptr)[0 - PFX_BYTES] = ext < ext_8f08 ? 0xc4 
> > > > :
> > > > 0x8f; \
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:78:9: note: in expansion of macro
> > > > ‘copy_VEX’
> > > >     78 |         copy_VEX(ptr, vex); \
> > > >        |         ^~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:8140:13: note: in expansion of
> > > > macro ‘copy_REX_VEX’
> > > >   8140 |             copy_REX_VEX(opc, rex_prefix, vex);
> > > >        |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > In file included from arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:11,
> > > >                   from arch/x86/x86_emulate.c:27:
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/private.h:691:17: note: at offset [0, 4095] 
> > > > into
> > > > destination object of size [0, 9223372036854775807] allocated by
> > > > ‘map_domain_page’
> > > >    691 |     (stb).ptr = map_domain_page(_mfn(this_cpu(stubs.mfn))) 
> > > > + \
> > > >        |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:60:21: note: in expansion of 
> > > > macro
> > > > ‘get_stub’
> > > >     60 |     uint8_t *buf_ = get_stub(stub); \
> > > >        |                     ^~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:3354:15: note: in expansion of
> > > > macro ‘init_prefixes’
> > > >   3354 |         opc = init_prefixes(stub);
> > > >        |               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/private.h:691:17: note: at offset [1, 4096] 
> > > > into
> > > > destination object of size [0, 9223372036854775807] allocated by
> > > > ‘map_domain_page’
> > > >    691 |     (stb).ptr = map_domain_page(_mfn(this_cpu(stubs.mfn))) 
> > > > + \
> > > >        |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:94:21: note: in expansion of 
> > > > macro
> > > > ‘get_stub’
> > > >     94 |     uint8_t *buf_ = get_stub(stub); \
> > > >        |                     ^~~~~~~~
> > > > arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c:3402:15: note: in expansion of
> > > > macro ‘init_evex’
> > > >   3402 |         opc = init_evex(stub);
> > > > [...]
> > > Hmm - that looks like more of the GCC 11 bounds bugs, but that's what
> > > the gcc11_wrap() visible at the top is supposed to be fixing.
> > >
> > > Neither of those CONFIG options ought to be relevant.
> > >
> > > Which Ubuntu is this?  Is it something local, or from one of our CI
> > > containers?  Is this on staging, or local?
> > Local. Nothing special - "Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"
> >
> > ======== apt show gcc
> > Package: gcc
> > Version: 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1
> The minimum gcc version is 5.1 on staging, perhaps this is due to that
Ah, nevermind, too early in the morning :)

> > Priority: optional
> > Build-Essential: yes
> > Section: devel
> > Source: gcc-defaults (1.193ubuntu1)
> > Origin: Ubuntu
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers 
> > <debian-gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> > Installed-Size: 51,2 kB
> > Provides: c-compiler, gcc-x86-64-linux-gnu (= 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1)
> > Depends: cpp (= 4:11.2.0-1ubuntu1), gcc-11 (>= 11.2.0-1~)
> > Recommends: libc6-dev | libc-dev
> > Suggests: gcc-multilib, make, manpages-dev, autoconf, automake, 
> > libtool, flex, bison, gdb, gcc-doc
> > Conflicts: gcc-doc (<< 1:2.95.3)
> > Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntu-mate-core, 
> > ubuntu-mate-desktop
> > Download-Size: 5 112 B
> > APT-Manual-Installed: yes
> > APT-Sources: http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 
> > Packages
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> >  This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for 
> > C.
> >  .
> >  This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C compiler.
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