[merged mm-stable] x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     x86-kmsan-skip-shadow-checks-in-__switch_to.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: x86: kmsan: skip shadow checks in __switch_to()
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:04:07 +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/20220915150417.722975-34-glider@google.com
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@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: 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>
---

 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@google.com are