Sorry for another delay... On 05/10, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 03:50:57PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > I can only find the strnstr(buf, "rcu") checks in skip_report(), > > but they only cover the KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY case... > > Huh, new one on me! When I run KCSAN, I set CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT=y, > which implies CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_VALUE_CHANGE_ONLY=n, which should > prevent skip_report() from even being invoked. > > Which suggests that in the rest of the kernel, including "rcu_" > in your function name gets you stricter KCSAN checking. ;-) Yes. And that is why I was very confused. I misinterpreted the "stricter data-race rules used in RCU code" as if there must be more "rcu-only" hacks in the kernel/kcsan/ code which I can't find ;) Oleg.