linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 31/48] kernel: kmsan: don't instrument stacktrace.c

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:40:00 +0200
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>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
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        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 31/48] kernel: kmsan: don't instrument stacktrace.c

When unwinding stack traces, the kernel may pick uninitialized data from
the stack. To avoid false reports on that data, we do not instrument
stacktrace.c

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
---
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Iadb72036ff6868b1d7c9f1ed6630a66be6c57a42
---
 kernel/Makefile | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 80f6cfb60c020..1147f0bd6e022 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ KASAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
 KCSAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
 UBSAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
 KMSAN_SANITIZE_kcov.o := n
+
+# Code in stactrace.c may branch on random values taken from the stack.
+# Prevent KMSAN false positives by not instrumenting this file.
+KMSAN_SANITIZE_stacktrace.o := n
+
 CFLAGS_kcov.o := $(call cc-option, -fno-conserve-stack) -fno-stack-protector
 
 # Don't instrument error handlers
-- 
2.35.1.1021.g381101b075-goog