The patch titled
Subject: x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:07:57 +0200
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/20220826150807.723137-35-glider@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I520c414f52c19f3ea22377a9c570fff0d5943a95
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c~x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ void compat_start_thread(struct pt_regs
* Kprobes not supported here. Set the probe on schedule instead.
* Function graph tracer not supported too.
*/
+__no_kmsan_checks
__visible __notrace_funcgraph struct task_struct *
__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are
stackdepot-reserve-5-extra-bits-in-depot_stack_handle_t.patch
instrumentedh-allow-instrumenting-both-sides-of-copy_from_user.patch
x86-asm-instrument-usercopy-in-get_user-and-put_user.patch
asm-generic-instrument-usercopy-in-cacheflushh.patch
kmsan-add-rest-documentation.patch
kmsan-introduce-__no_sanitize_memory-and-__no_kmsan_checks.patch
kmsan-mark-noinstr-as-__no_sanitize_memory.patch
x86-kmsan-pgtable-reduce-vmalloc-space.patch
libnvdimm-pfn_dev-increase-max_struct_page_size.patch
kmsan-add-kmsan-runtime-core.patch
kmsan-disable-instrumentation-of-unsupported-common-kernel-code.patch
maintainers-add-entry-for-kmsan.patch
mm-kmsan-maintain-kmsan-metadata-for-page-operations.patch
mm-kmsan-call-kmsan-hooks-from-slub-code.patch
kmsan-handle-task-creation-and-exiting.patch
init-kmsan-call-kmsan-initialization-routines.patch
instrumentedh-add-kmsan-support.patch
kmsan-unpoison-tlb-in-arch_tlb_gather_mmu.patch
kmsan-add-iomap-support.patch
input-libps2-mark-data-received-in-__ps2_command-as-initialized.patch
dma-kmsan-unpoison-dma-mappings.patch
virtio-kmsan-check-unpoison-scatterlist-in-vring_map_one_sg.patch
kmsan-handle-memory-sent-to-from-usb.patch
kmsan-add-tests-for-kmsan.patch
kmsan-disable-strscpy-optimization-under-kmsan.patch
crypto-kmsan-disable-accelerated-configs-under-kmsan.patch
kmsan-disable-physical-page-merging-in-biovec.patch
block-kmsan-skip-bio-block-merging-logic-for-kmsan.patch
kcov-kmsan-unpoison-area-list-in-kcov_remote_area_put.patch
security-kmsan-fix-interoperability-with-auto-initialization.patch
objtool-kmsan-list-kmsan-api-functions-as-uaccess-safe.patch
x86-kmsan-disable-instrumentation-of-unsupported-code.patch
x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.patch
x86-kmsan-handle-open-coded-assembly-in-lib-iomemc.patch
x86-kmsan-use-__msan_-string-functions-where-possible.patch
x86-kmsan-sync-metadata-pages-on-page-fault.patch
x86-kasan-kmsan-support-config_generic_csum-on-x86-enable-it-for-kasan-kmsan.patch
x86-fs-kmsan-disable-config_dcache_word_access.patch
x86-kmsan-dont-instrument-stack-walking-functions.patch
entry-kmsan-introduce-kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs.patch
bpf-kmsan-initialize-bpf-registers-with-zeroes.patch
mm-fs-initialize-fsdata-passed-to-write_begin-write_end-interface.patch
x86-kmsan-enable-kmsan-builds-for-x86.patch
