[PATCH 3/8] kcsan: Skew delay to be longer for certain access types

From: Marco Elver
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 06:30:46 EST


For compound instrumentation and assert accesses, skew the watchpoint
delay to be longer. We still shouldn't exceed the maximum delays, but it
is safe to skew the delay for these accesses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kcsan/core.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/core.c b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
index fb52de2facf3..4633baebf84e 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
@@ -283,11 +283,15 @@ static __always_inline bool kcsan_is_enabled(void)
return READ_ONCE(kcsan_enabled) && get_ctx()->disable_count == 0;
}

-static inline unsigned int get_delay(void)
+static inline unsigned int get_delay(int type)
{
unsigned int delay = in_task() ? kcsan_udelay_task : kcsan_udelay_interrupt;
+ /* For certain access types, skew the random delay to be longer. */
+ unsigned int skew_delay_order =
+ (type & (KCSAN_ACCESS_COMPOUND | KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT)) ? 1 : 0;
+
return delay - (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_DELAY_RANDOMIZE) ?
- prandom_u32_max(delay) :
+ prandom_u32_max(delay >> skew_delay_order) :
0);
}

@@ -449,7 +453,7 @@ kcsan_setup_watchpoint(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int type)
* Delay this thread, to increase probability of observing a racy
* conflicting access.
*/
- udelay(get_delay());
+ udelay(get_delay(type));

/*
* Re-read value, and check if it is as expected; if not, we infer a
--
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