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Alexander Potapenko b11671b37f x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()
When instrumenting functions, KMSAN obtains the per-task state (mostly
pointers to metadata for function arguments and return values) once per
function at its beginning, using the `current` pointer.

Every time the instrumented function calls another function, this state
(`struct kmsan_context_state`) is updated with shadow/origin data of the
passed and returned values.

When `current` changes in the low-level arch code, instrumented code can
not notice that, and will still refer to the old state, possibly
corrupting it or using stale data.  This may result in false positive
reports.

To deal with that, we need to apply __no_kmsan_checks to the functions
performing context switching - this will result in skipping all KMSAN
shadow checks and marking newly created values as initialized, preventing
all false positive reports in those functions.  False negatives are still
possible, but we expect them to be rare and impersistent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-34-glider@google.com
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-03 14:03:24 -07:00
arch x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to() 2022-10-03 14:03:24 -07:00
block block: kmsan: skip bio block merging logic for KMSAN 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: kmsan: disable accelerated configs under KMSAN 2022-10-03 14:03:22 -07:00
Documentation kmsan: add ReST documentation 2022-10-03 14:03:18 -07:00
drivers crypto: kmsan: disable accelerated configs under KMSAN 2022-10-03 14:03:22 -07:00
fs hugetlb: clean up code checking for fault/truncation races 2022-10-03 14:03:17 -07:00
include kmsan: handle memory sent to/from USB 2022-10-03 14:03:22 -07:00
init init: kmsan: call KMSAN initialization routines 2022-10-03 14:03:21 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: save address for sendzc async execution 2022-08-25 07:52:30 -06:00
ipc ipc/shm: use VMA iterator instead of linked list 2022-09-26 19:46:21 -07:00
kernel kcov: kmsan: unpoison area->list in kcov_remote_area_put() 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
lib kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN 2022-10-03 14:03:22 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm security: kmsan: fix interoperability with auto-initialization 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
net Including fixes from ipsec and netfilter (with one broken Fixes tag). 2022-08-25 14:03:58 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.20 / 6.0 2022-08-05 09:41:12 -07:00
scripts kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core 2022-10-03 14:03:19 -07:00
security security: kmsan: fix interoperability with auto-initialization 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.0-rc2 2022-08-19 09:46:11 -07:00
tools objtool: kmsan: list KMSAN API functions as uaccess-safe 2022-10-03 14:03:23 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Drop unnecessary initialization of "ops" in kvm_ioctl_create_device() 2022-08-19 04:05:43 -04:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: update Luca Ceresoli's e-mail address 2022-08-28 14:02:46 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entry for KMSAN 2022-10-03 14:03:20 -07:00
Makefile kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core 2022-10-03 14:03:19 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.