[merged mm-stable] kmsan-disable-strscpy-optimization-under-kmsan.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] kmsan-disable-strscpy-optimization-under-kmsan.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kmsan-disable-strscpy-optimization-under-kmsan.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Subject: kmsan: disable strscpy() optimization under KMSAN
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:03:59 +0200

Disable the efficient 8-byte reading under KMSAN to avoid false positives.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-26-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/string.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/lib/string.c~kmsan-disable-strscpy-optimization-under-kmsan
+++ a/lib/string.c
@@ -197,6 +197,14 @@ ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *
 		max = 0;
 #endif
 
+	/*
+	 * read_word_at_a_time() below may read uninitialized bytes after the
+	 * trailing zero and use them in comparisons. Disable this optimization
+	 * under KMSAN to prevent false positive reports.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN))
+		max = 0;
+
 	while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
 		unsigned long c, data;
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from glider@google.com are