[PATCH 07/13] powerpc/kprobes: Unpoison instruction in kprobe struct

[Naveen N Rao]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 05:55:33AM +0000, Nicholas Miehlbradt wrote:
> KMSAN does not unpoison the ainsn field of a kprobe struct correctly.
> Manually unpoison it to prevent false positives.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Miehlbradt <nicholas at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> index b20ee72e873a..1cbec54f2b6a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>  #include <asm/sections.h>
>  #include <asm/inst.h>
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/kmsan-checks.h>
>  
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
> @@ -179,6 +180,7 @@ int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>  
>  	if (!ret) {
>  		patch_instruction(p->ainsn.insn, insn);
> +		kmsan_unpoison_memory(p->ainsn.insn, sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));

kprobe_opcode_t is u32, but we could be probing a prefixed instruction.  
You can pass the instruction length through ppc_inst_len(insn).


- Naveen