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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/uaccess: instrument copy_from_user_nmi()
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:05:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1o72704bVK0FgCr@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=XDeghFBGXT37Mc-ky-8NaPaMmCLdo3Par=xh92Fk_CAQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:38:53AM -0700, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> A bigger issue from the NMI perspective is probably
> having __msan_poison_alloca() inserted in every non-noinstr kernel
> function, because that hook may acquire the stackdepot lock.

*urgghhh* that's broken, that must not be. There is a *TON* of NMI
functions that are non-noinstr.

What's worse, it seems to do a memory allocation as well, and that's out
the window with PREEMPT_RT where you can't do even GFP_ATOMIC from
regular IRQ context.

That function is wholly unacceptable to be added to every kernel
function.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-27  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 22:17 Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-26  9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-26 18:38   ` Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-27  8:05     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2022-10-27 18:26       ` Alexander Potapenko
2022-10-27 18:58         ` Kees Cook
2022-10-27 19:26           ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-27 23:24           ` Alexander Potapenko

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