Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Noinstr fixes for K[CA]SAN with GCOV

[Marco Elver]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 at 11:16, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As discussed in [2], the GCOV+*SAN issue is attacked from two angles:
> both adding __always_inline to the instrumentation helpers AND disabling
> GCOV for noinstr.c. Only one or the other of these things is needed to
> make the build error go away, but they both make sense in their own
> right and both may serve to prevent other similar errors from cropping
> up in future.
>
> Note I have not annotated !CONFIG_* stubs, only !__SANITIZE_*__ ones.
> That's because for global settings (i.e. kconfig) it remains a bug to
> call these stubs from the wrong context and we'd probably like to detect
> that bug even if it could be eliminated from the current build.
>
> Concretely, the above is talking about KMSAN, i.e. stuff like
> instrument_copy_from_user().
>
> Other than that, I think everything in include/linux/instrumented.h is
> covered now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Details:
>
>  - ❯❯  clang --version
>    Debian clang version 19.1.7 (3+build5)
>    Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>    Thread model: posix
>    InstalledDir: /usr/lib/llvm-19/bin
>
>  - Kernel config:
>
>    https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bjackman/bbfdf4ec2e1dfd0e18657174f0537e2c/raw/a88dcc6567d14c69445e7928a7d5dfc23ca9f619/gistfile0.txt
>
> Note I also get this error:
>
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: set_ftrace_ops_ro+0x3b: relocation to !ENDBR: machine_kexec_prepare+0x810
>
> That one's a total mystery to me. I guess it's better to "fix" the SEV
> one independently rather than waiting until I know how to fix them both.
>
> Note I also mentioned other similar errors in [0]. Those errors don't
> exist in Linus' master and I didn't note down where I saw them. Either
> they have since been fixed, or I observed them in Google's internal
> codebase where they were instroduced downstream.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Also fix __kcsan_{dis,en}able_current()
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251215-gcov-inline-noinstr-v2-0-6f100b94fa99@xxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!