linux-kernel - [PATCH 33/43] kmsan: disable physical page merging in biovec

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Message-Id: <20211214162050.660953-34-glider@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:20:40 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     glider@...gle.com
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
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        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 33/43] kmsan: disable physical page merging in biovec

KMSAN metadata for consequent physical pages may be inconsequent,
therefore accessing such pages together may lead to metadata
corruption.
We disable merging pages in biovec to prevent such corruptions.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
---

Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Iece16041be5ee47904fbc98121b105e5be5fea5c
---
 block/blk.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index ccde6e6f17360..e0c62a5d5639e 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ static inline bool biovec_phys_mergeable(struct request_queue *q,
 	phys_addr_t addr1 = page_to_phys(vec1->bv_page) + vec1->bv_offset;
 	phys_addr_t addr2 = page_to_phys(vec2->bv_page) + vec2->bv_offset;
 
+	/*
+	 * Merging consequent physical pages may not work correctly under KMSAN
+	 * if their metadata pages aren't consequent. Just disable merging.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN))
+		return false;
+
 	if (addr1 + vec1->bv_len != addr2)
 		return false;
 	if (xen_domain() && !xen_biovec_phys_mergeable(vec1, vec2->bv_page))
-- 
2.34.1.173.g76aa8bc2d0-goog