From 5eaec4cf41a8f5ac1a0c69a607cdc5035a797f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Elver Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 13:37:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Disable KCSAN instrumentation in delay.o KCSAN relies on udelay() for injecting delays. To avoid recursively triggering a watchpoint, where KCSAN sets up watchpoint on an address that is accessed by udelay() in the same thread, disable instrumentation in arm64's delay implementation. Paul found a manifestation of this as follows: | BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __delay / set_need_resched_current | | read (marked) to 0xffff000005899b48 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 8: | __delay+0xb0/0x378 | __udelay+0x4c/0x60 | kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x3b4/0x820 | __tsan_unaligned_write4+0x228/0x26c | set_need_resched_current+0x138/0x1a8 | rcu_exp_handler+0x418/0x4a0 | __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x36c/0x4a0 | generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x20/0x30 | ipi_handler+0xec/0x558 | handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x220/0x2a0 | generic_handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xb4 | gic_handle_irq+0x64/0x144 | call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48 | do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0xb8 | el1_interrupt+0x3c/0x60 | el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 | el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70 | smp_call_function_single+0x18c/0x25c | sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus+0x534/0x8bc | rcu_exp_sel_wait_wake+0x358/0xef4 | wait_rcu_exp_gp+0x30/0x44 | kthread_worker_fn+0x1b4/0x5dc | kthread+0x1d8/0x204 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 | | write to 0xffff000005899b4c of 4 bytes by interrupt on cpu 8: | set_need_resched_current+0x138/0x1a8 | [...] This matches what is already done in arch/x86/lib/Makefile. Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Fixes: dd03762ab608 ("arm64: Enable KCSAN") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/lib/Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile index 448c917494f3..b33e1ca4a781 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +# KCSAN uses udelay for introducing watchpoint delay; avoid recursion. +KCSAN_SANITIZE_delay.o := n + lib-y := clear_user.o delay.o copy_from_user.o \ copy_to_user.o copy_page.o \ clear_page.o csum.o insn.o memchr.o memcpy.o \