KMSAN metadata for consequent physical pages may be inconsequent,
therefore accessing such pages together may lead to metadata
corruption.
We disable merging pages in biovec to prevent such corruptions.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
---
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Iece16041be5ee47904fbc98121b105e5be5fea5c
---
block/blk.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h
index ccde6e6f17360..e0c62a5d5639e 100644
--- a/block/blk.h
+++ b/block/blk.h
@@ -103,6 +103,13 @@ static inline bool biovec_phys_mergeable(struct request_queue *q,
phys_addr_t addr1 = page_to_phys(vec1->bv_page) + vec1->bv_offset;
phys_addr_t addr2 = page_to_phys(vec2->bv_page) + vec2->bv_offset;
+ /*
+ * Merging consequent physical pages may not work correctly under KMSAN
+ * if their metadata pages aren't consequent. Just disable merging.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN))
+ return false;
+
if (addr1 + vec1->bv_len != addr2)
return false;
if (xen_domain() && !xen_biovec_phys_mergeable(vec1, vec2->bv_page))
--
2.34.1.173.g76aa8bc2d0-goog