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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:37:37 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Andrey Ryabinin <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm, kasan:
  Silence KASAN warnings in get_wchan()

Commit-ID:  f7d27c35ddff7c100d7a98db499ac0040149ac05
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f7d27c35ddff7c100d7a98db499ac0040149ac05
Author:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:37:18 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:04:19 +0200

x86/mm, kasan: Silence KASAN warnings in get_wchan()

get_wchan() is racy by design, it may access volatile stack
of running task, thus it may access redzone in a stack frame
and cause KASAN to warn about this.

Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() to silence these warnings.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@...t.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445243838-17763-3-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 39e585a..e28db18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -550,14 +550,14 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
 	if (sp < bottom || sp > top)
 		return 0;
 
-	fp = READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)sp);
+	fp = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)sp);
 	do {
 		if (fp < bottom || fp > top)
 			return 0;
-		ip = READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)(fp + sizeof(unsigned long)));
+		ip = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)(fp + sizeof(unsigned long)));
 		if (!in_sched_functions(ip))
 			return ip;
-		fp = READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)fp);
+		fp = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)fp);
 	} while (count++ < 16 && p->state != TASK_RUNNING);
 	return 0;
 }
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