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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,  Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org,  "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org,
	syzbot+93a9e8a3dea8d6085e12@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, kmsan: fix infinite recursion due to RCU critical section
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:22:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANpmjNNZ6vV7DJ+SBGcSnV6qzkmH_J=WrofrfaAeidvSG2nHbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd742d1d-70a3-586b-4bf5-fcfc94c75b4a@quicinc.com>

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 12:28, Charan Teja Kalla
<quic_charante@quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> May I ask if KMSAN also instruments the access to the memory managed as
> ZONE_DEVICE. You know this is not the RAM and also these pages will
> never be onlined thus also not be available in buddy.
>
> Reason for the ask is that this patch is introduced because of a race
> between pfn walker ends up in pfn of zone device memory.
>
> If KMSAN never instruments this, does it look good to you to have the
> KMSAN version of pfn_valid(), as being suggested by Alexander in the
> other mail.

It would be nice to avoid duplicating functions - both options have downsides:
1. Shared pfn_valid(): it might break for KMSAN again in future if new
recursion is introduced.
2. KMSAN-version of pfn_valid(): it might break if pfn_valid() changes
in future.

I suspect #1 is less likely.

What is your main concern by switching to rcu_read_lock_sched()?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-18 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-18 10:59 Marco Elver
2024-01-18 11:07 ` Marco Elver
2024-01-18 11:27   ` Charan Teja Kalla
2024-01-18 12:22     ` Marco Elver [this message]
2024-01-19 17:00       ` Charan Teja Kalla
2024-01-18 12:46     ` Alexander Potapenko
2024-01-22  9:56 ` Alexander Potapenko

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