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authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>2022-09-15 18:04:12 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-04 00:03:25 +0300
commit7cf8f44a5a1c0cb10a594996797e5a988cf0589d (patch)
tree1d014ad742667b01b3a618b8faba8d7aa0f07e26
parentd911c67e10b47eb1ace08dcf95ce98fe4d408c88 (diff)
downloadlinux-7cf8f44a5a1c0cb10a594996797e5a988cf0589d.tar.xz
x86: fs: kmsan: disable CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
dentry_string_cmp() calls read_word_at_a_time(), which might read uninitialized bytes to optimize string comparisons. Disabling CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS should prohibit this optimization, as well as (probably) similar ones. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-39-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Suggested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index eb158eb8a985..edf7f12935d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ config X86
select CLKEVT_I8253
select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE
select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
- select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
+ # Word-size accesses may read uninitialized data past the trailing \0
+ # in strings and cause false KMSAN reports.
+ select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !KMSAN
select DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB
select EDAC_SUPPORT