linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: kmsan: implement kmsan

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Message-ID: <CAG_fn=WfZxp6Xm-8PN2nQfdeyRscLCvhp=0WU1dQC0Gvy2yMkA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:02:35 +0100
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-mm@...ck.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, tglx@...utronix.de, 
	x86@...nel.org, Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>, 
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: kmsan: implement kmsan_memmove()

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:05 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 03:18, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Provide a hook that can be used by custom memcpy implementations to tell
> > KMSAN that the metadata needs to be copied. Without that, false positive
> > reports are possible in the cases where KMSAN fails to intercept memory
> > initialization.
>
> Thanks, the series looks fine to me now with the updated 3/3.
>
> I assume it will go through Andrew's -mm tree?
>
>                Linus

Yes, I think this makes the most sense.