[PATCH v2] x86/traps: avoid KMSAN bugs originating from handle_bug()

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Thu Nov 03 2022 - 09:45:46 EST


There is a case in exc_invalid_op handler that is executed outside the
irqentry_enter()/irqentry_exit() region when an UD2 instruction is used
to encode a call to __warn().

In that case the `struct pt_regs` passed to the interrupt handler is
never unpoisoned by KMSAN (this is normally done in irqentry_enter()),
which leads to false positives inside handle_bug().

Use kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() to explicitly unpoison those registers
before using them.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

v2:
- move the call to kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs() after the
instrumentation_begin(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra
---
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 178015a820f08..66701b4d99acd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#include <linux/kmsan.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -308,6 +309,13 @@ static noinstr bool handle_bug(struct pt_regs *regs)
* All lies, just get the WARN/BUG out.
*/
instrumentation_begin();
+
+ /*
+ * Normally @regs are unpoisoned by irqentry_enter(), but handle_bug()
+ * is a rare case that uses @regs without passing them to
+ * irqentry_enter().
+ */
+ kmsan_unpoison_entry_regs(regs);
/*
* Since we're emulating a CALL with exceptions, restore the interrupt
* state to what it was at the exception site.
--
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