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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fei Yang <fei.yang@intel.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in apply_alternatives()
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:45:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZScJZ7Uc6aJNyvRg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231011132703.3evo4ieradgyvgc2@box.shutemov.name>


* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:46:16AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:58:49AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > Fei has reported that KASAN triggers during apply_alternatives() on
> > > 5-level paging machine:
> > > 
> > 
> > Urgh @ KASAN splat, can't we summarize that?
> 
> What about this?
> 
> 	BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in rcu_is_watching
> 	Read of size 4 at addr ff110003ee6419a0 by task swapper/0/0
> 	...
> 	__asan_load4
> 	rcu_is_watching
> 	? text_poke_early
> 	trace_hardirqs_on
> 	? __asan_load4
> 	text_poke_early
> 	apply_alternatives
> 	...
> 
> Is it enough details or I overdid summarization?

No, that's perfect IMO. I'd even leave out the unreliable '?' entries:

> 	BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in rcu_is_watching
> 	Read of size 4 at addr ff110003ee6419a0 by task swapper/0/0
> 	...
> 	__asan_load4
> 	rcu_is_watching
> 	trace_hardirqs_on
> 	text_poke_early
> 	apply_alternatives
> 	...

... or so.

> 	/*
> 	 * In the case CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y, KASAN_SHADOW_START is defined using
> 	 * cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LA57) and is therefore patched here.
> 	 * During the process, KASAN becomes confused seeing partial LA57
> 	 * conversion and triggers a false-positive out-of-bound report.
> 	 *
> 	 * Disable KASAN until the patching is complete.
> 	 */
> 
> Looks good?

LGTM.

Thanks,

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2023-10-11 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-11  6:58 [PATCHv2] x86/alternatives: Disable KASAN in apply_alternatives() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-10-11  7:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-11  8:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-11  9:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-11 13:27   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-10-11 20:45     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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