Re: [PATCH v2] x86/traps: avoid KMSAN bugs originating from handle_bug()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 03 2022 - 10:33:32 EST


On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> There is a case in exc_invalid_op handler that is executed outside the
> irqentry_enter()/irqentry_exit() region when an UD2 instruction is used
> to encode a call to __warn().
>
> In that case the `struct pt_regs` passed to the interrupt handler is
> never unpoisoned by KMSAN (this is normally done in irqentry_enter()),
> which leads to false positives inside handle_bug().
>
> Use kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() to explicitly unpoison those registers
> before using them.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> v2:
> - move the call to kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() after the
> instrumentation_begin(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra

Thanks!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>