linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 12/12] KMSAN: Remove tautological checks

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Message-Id: <20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-12-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:15:49 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
 Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@...il.com>, 
 Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, 
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, patches@...ts.linux.dev, 
 Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 12/12] KMSAN: Remove tautological checks

Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 15.0.0, two KMSAN checks can be cleaned up.

CONFIG_HAVE_KMSAN_COMPILER will always be true when using clang so
remove the cc-option test and use a simple check for CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG.

CONFIG_HAVE_KMSAN_PARAM_RETVAL will always be true so it can be removed
outright.

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
Cc: kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
---
 lib/Kconfig.kmsan | 11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kmsan b/lib/Kconfig.kmsan
index 0541d7b079cc..7251b6b59e69 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kmsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kmsan
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN
 	bool
 
 config HAVE_KMSAN_COMPILER
-	# Clang versions <14.0.0 also support -fsanitize=kernel-memory, but not
-	# all the features necessary to build the kernel with KMSAN.
-	depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000
-	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-memory -mllvm -msan-disable-checks=1)
+	def_bool CC_IS_CLANG
 
 config KMSAN
 	bool "KMSAN: detector of uninitialized values use"
@@ -28,15 +25,9 @@ config KMSAN
 
 if KMSAN
 
-config HAVE_KMSAN_PARAM_RETVAL
-	# -fsanitize-memory-param-retval is supported only by Clang >= 14.
-	depends on HAVE_KMSAN_COMPILER
-	def_bool $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-memory -fsanitize-memory-param-retval)
-
 config KMSAN_CHECK_PARAM_RETVAL
 	bool "Check for uninitialized values passed to and returned from functions"
 	default y
-	depends on HAVE_KMSAN_PARAM_RETVAL
 	help
 	  If the compiler supports -fsanitize-memory-param-retval, KMSAN will
 	  eagerly check every function parameter passed by value and every

-- 
2.50.1