linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 22/22] x86/int3: Ensure that poke_int3

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Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:51:27 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 22/22] x86/int3: Ensure that poke_int3_handler() is
 not sanitized

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:30:25PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > It's quite fragile. Tomorrow poke_int3_handler handler calls more of
> > fewer functions, and both ways it's not detected by anything.
> 
> Yes; not having tools for this is pretty annoying. In 0/n I asked Dan if
> smatch could do at least the normal tracing stuff, the compiler
> instrumentation bits are going to be far more difficult because smatch
> doesn't work at that level :/
> 
> (I actually have

... and I stopped typing ...

I think I mean to say something like: ... more changes to
poke_int3_handler() pending, but they're all quite simple).