On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 11:25 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 05:44:11PM +0200, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ilya,
> > >
> > > > +static inline bool is_lowcore_addr(void *addr)
> > > > +{
> > > > + return addr >= (void *)&S390_lowcore &&
> > > > + addr < (void *)(&S390_lowcore + 1);
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +static inline void *arch_kmsan_get_meta_or_null(void *addr, bool
> > > > is_origin)
> > > > +{
> > > > + if (is_lowcore_addr(addr)) {
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * Different lowcores accessed via S390_lowcore
> > > > are described
> > > > + * by the same struct page. Resolve the prefix
> > > > manually in
> > > > + * order to get a distinct struct page.
> > > > + */
> > >
> > > > + addr += (void
> > > > *)lowcore_ptr[raw_smp_processor_id()] -
> > > > + (void *)&S390_lowcore;
> > >
> > > If I am not mistaken neither raw_smp_processor_id() itself, nor
> > > lowcore_ptr[raw_smp_processor_id()] are atomic. Should the preemption
> > > be disabled while the addr is calculated?
> > >
> > > But then the question arises - how meaningful the returned value is?
> > > AFAICT kmsan_get_metadata() is called from a preemptable context.
> > > So if the CPU is changed - how useful the previous CPU lowcore meta
> > > is?
> >
> > This code path will only be triggered by instrumented code that
> > accesses lowcore. That code is supposed to disable preemption;
> > if it didn't, it's a bug in that code and it should be fixed there.
> >
> > >
> > > Is it a memory block that needs to be ignored instead?
> > >
> > > > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(is_lowcore_addr(addr)))
> > > > + return NULL;
> > >
> > > lowcore_ptr[] pointing into S390_lowcore is rather a bug.
> >
> > Right, but AFAIK BUG() calls are discouraged. I guess in a debug tool
> > the rules are more relaxed, but we can recover from this condition here
> > easily, that's why I still went for WARN_ON_ONCE().
>
> We have KMSAN_WARN_ON() for that, sorry for not pointing it out
> earlier: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/mm/kmsan/kmsan.h#L46
Apart from that:
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
