Architectures use assembly code to initialize ftrace_regs and call ftrace_ops_list_func(). Therefore, from the KMSAN's point of view, ftrace_regs is poisoned on ftrace_ops_list_func entry(). This causes KMSAN warnings when running the ftrace testsuite. Fix by trusting the architecture-specific assembly code and always unpoisoning ftrace_regs in ftrace_ops_list_func. The issue was not encountered on x86_64 so far only by accident: assembly-allocated ftrace_regs was overlapping a stale partially unpoisoned stack frame. Poisoning stack frames before returns [1] makes the issue appear on x86_64 as well. [1] https://github.com/iii-i/llvm-project/commits/msan-poison-allocas-before-returning-2024-06-12/ Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 65208d3b5ed9..c35ad4362d71 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -7407,6 +7407,7 @@ __ftrace_ops_list_func(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, void arch_ftrace_ops_list_func(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, struct ftrace_ops *op, struct ftrace_regs *fregs) { + kmsan_unpoison_memory(fregs, sizeof(*fregs)); __ftrace_ops_list_func(ip, parent_ip, NULL, fregs); } #else -- 2.45.1