linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 32/35] s390/uaccess: Add KMSAN support to put_user() and get

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:24:50 +0200
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 32/35] s390/uaccess: Add KMSAN support to put_user()
 and get_user()

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> put_user() uses inline assembly with precise constraints, so Clang is
> in principle capable of instrumenting it automatically. Unfortunately,
> one of the constraints contains a dereferenced user pointer, and Clang
> does not currently distinguish user and kernel pointers. Therefore
> KMSAN attempts to access shadow for user pointers, which is not a right
> thing to do.
>
> An obvious fix to add __no_sanitize_memory to __put_user_fn() does not
> work, since it's __always_inline. And __always_inline cannot be removed
> due to the __put_user_bad() trick.
>
> A different obvious fix of using the "a" instead of the "+Q" constraint
> degrades the code quality, which is very important here, since it's a
> hot path.
>
> Instead, repurpose the __put_user_asm() macro to define
> __put_user_{char,short,int,long}_noinstr() functions and mark them with
> __no_sanitize_memory. For the non-KMSAN builds make them
> __always_inline in order to keep the generated code quality. Also
> define __put_user_{char,short,int,long}() functions, which call the
> aforementioned ones and which *are* instrumented, because they call
> KMSAN hooks, which may be implemented as macros.

I am not really familiar with s390 assembly, but I think you still
need to call kmsan_copy_to_user() and kmsan_copy_from_user() to
properly initialize the copied data and report infoleaks.
Would it be possible to insert calls to linux/instrumented.h hooks
into uaccess functions?