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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
	Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -rcu] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:02:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a32sVU4umk2FLnWnMGMQxThvMHAKxVM+G4X-hMgpBsXMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANpmjNOUTed6FT8X0bUSc1tGBh3jrEJ0DRpQwBfoPF5ah8Wrhw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:11 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 15:40, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:23 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 14:14, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 13:25, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:50 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > If you can't find any, I would prefer having the simpler interface
> > > > > with just one set of annotations.
> > > >
> > > > That's fair enough. I'll prepare a v2 series that first introduces the
> > > > new header, and then applies it to the locations that seem obvious
> > > > candidates for having both checks.
> > >
> > > I've sent a new patch series which introduces instrumented.h:
> > >    http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200120141927.114373-1-elver@google.com
> >
> > Looks good to me, feel free to add
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > if you are merging this through your own tree or someone else's,
> > or let me know if I should put it into the asm-generic git tree.
>
> Thank you!  It seems there is still some debate around the user-copy
> instrumentation.
>
> The main question we have right now is if we should add pre/post hooks
> for them. Although in the version above I added KCSAN checks after the
> user-copies, it seems maybe we want it before. I personally don't have
> a strong preference, and wanted to err on the side of being more
> conservative.
>
> If I send a v2, and it now turns out we do all the instrumentation
> before the user-copies for KASAN and KCSAN, then we have a bunch of
> empty hooks. However, for KMSAN we need the post-hook, at least for
> copy_from_user. Do you mind a bunch of empty functions to provide
> pre/post hooks for user-copies? Could the post-hooks be generally
> useful for something else?

I'd prefer not to add any empty hooks, let's do that once they
are actually used.

      Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 16:57 [PATCH -rcu] asm-generic, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation for bitops Marco Elver
2020-01-15 19:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 19:51   ` Marco Elver
2020-01-15 19:54     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-15 20:50       ` Marco Elver
2020-01-17 12:25         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-17 13:14           ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:23             ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 14:40               ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-20 15:11                 ` Marco Elver
2020-01-20 19:02                   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-01-21 16:12                     ` Marco Elver

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