If vring doesn't use the DMA API, KMSAN is unable to tell whether the memory is initialized by hardware. Explicitly call kmsan_handle_dma() from vring_map_one_sg() in this case to prevent false positives. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx --- Change-Id: Icc8678289b7084139320fc503898a67aa9803458 --- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index 867c7ebd3f10..3b5fb08195df 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/hrtimer.h> #include <linux/dma-mapping.h> +#include <linux/kmsan-checks.h> #include <xen/xen.h> #ifdef DEBUG @@ -326,8 +327,15 @@ static dma_addr_t vring_map_one_sg(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq, struct scatterlist *sg, enum dma_data_direction direction) { - if (!vq->use_dma_api) + if (!vq->use_dma_api) { + /* + * If DMA is not used, KMSAN doesn't know that the scatterlist + * is initialized by the hardware. Explicitly check/unpoison it + * depending on the direction. + */ + kmsan_handle_dma(sg_virt(sg), sg->length, direction); return (dma_addr_t)sg_phys(sg); + } /* * We can't use dma_map_sg, because we don't use scatterlists in -- 2.24.1.735.g03f4e72817-goog