Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 3 authors, 2024-06-24

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  1. Posted Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
  2. Acked-by Vlastimil Babka
  3. Reviewed-by Alexander Potapenko

[PATCH v7 17/38] mm: slub: Let KMSAN access metadata

From: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2024-06-21 11:37:46
Also in: linux-mm, linux-s390, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, slab allocator, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Vlastimil Babka, Harry Yoo, Linus Torvalds

Building the kernel with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_KMSAN causes
KMSAN to complain about touching redzones in kfree().

Fix by extending the existing KASAN-related metadata_access_enable()
and metadata_access_disable() functions to KMSAN.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
---
 mm/slub.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 1134091abac5..b050e528112c 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -829,10 +829,12 @@ static int disable_higher_order_debug;
 static inline void metadata_access_enable(void)
 {
 	kasan_disable_current();
+	kmsan_disable_current();
 }
 
 static inline void metadata_access_disable(void)
 {
+	kmsan_enable_current();
 	kasan_enable_current();
 }
 
-- 
2.45.1
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