Re: [PATCH 2/4] kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code

From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed Feb 08 2023 - 12:01:21 EST


On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 17:40, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> objtool warns about some suspicous code inside of kmsan:
>
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_load_n+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_store_n+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_load_1+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_store_1+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_load_2+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_store_2+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_load_4+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_store_4+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_load_8+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_metadata_ptr_for_store_8+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_instrument_asm_store+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_chain_origin+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_poison_alloca+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_warning+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __msan_get_context_state+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: kmsan_copy_to_user+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: kmsan_unpoison_memory+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: kmsan_report+0x4: call to __fentry__() with UACCESS enabled
>
> Similar code already exists in kasan, which avoids this by skipping
> ftrace annotations, so do the same thing here.
>
> Fixes: f80be4571b19 ("kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/kmsan/Makefile | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmsan/Makefile b/mm/kmsan/Makefile
> index 98eab2856626..389fd767a11f 100644
> --- a/mm/kmsan/Makefile
> +++ b/mm/kmsan/Makefile
> @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ CC_FLAGS_KMSAN_RUNTIME += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
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> CFLAGS_REMOVE.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)

That means this CFLAGS_REMOVE.o didn't work, right? Can it be removed?

> +# Disable ftrace to avoid recursion.
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_core.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_hooks.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_init.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_instrumentation.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_report.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +CFLAGS_REMOVE_shadow.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> +
> CFLAGS_core.o := $(CC_FLAGS_KMSAN_RUNTIME)
> CFLAGS_hooks.o := $(CC_FLAGS_KMSAN_RUNTIME)
> CFLAGS_init.o := $(CC_FLAGS_KMSAN_RUNTIME)
> --
> 2.39.1
>