linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 46/48] x86: fs: kmsan: disable CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD

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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:40:15 +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>,
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        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
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        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 46/48] x86: fs: kmsan: disable CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS

dentry_string_cmp() calls read_word_at_a_time(), which might read
uninitialized bytes to optimize string comparisons.
Disabling CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS should prohibit this optimization,
as well as (probably) similar ones.

Suggested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
---
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I4c0073224ac2897cafb8c037362c49dda9cfa133
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 86df15017f79d..646a7849be4cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ config X86
 	select CLKEVT_I8253
 	select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
 	select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
-	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+	# Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0
+	# in strings and cause false KMSAN reports.
+	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS		if !KMSAN
 	select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
 	select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB
 	select EDAC_SUPPORT
-- 
2.35.1.1021.g381101b075-goog