linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] tools/objtool: add kasan_check

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Message-ID: <CANpmjNP7nNO36p03_1fksx1O2-MNevHzF7revUwQ3b7+RR0y+w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 11:46:10 +0200
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tools/objtool: add kasan_check_* to uaccess whitelist

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 10:55, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 7:19 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 06:32:57PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > This is a pre-requisite for enabling bitops instrumentation. Some bitops
> > > may safely be used with instrumentation in uaccess regions.
> > >
> > > For example, on x86, `test_bit` is used to test a CPU-feature in a
> > > uaccess region:   arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c:361
> >
> > That one can easily be moved out of the uaccess region. Any else?
>
> Marco, try to update config with "make allyesconfig" and then build
> the kernel without this change.
>

Done. The only instance of the uaccess warning is still in
arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c.

Change the patch to move this access instead? Let me know what you prefer.

Thanks,
-- Marco