[PATCH RFC 5/9] kmsan: report trie-backed stack depot traces

From: Caleb Kan

Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 08:45:53 EST


From: Caleb Kan <ckan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

KMSAN stores ordinary origin stacks and synthetic alloca and chain origins
as persistent stack depot records. Once trie storage is enabled, these
handles can be trie-backed, while kmsan_print_origin() still relies on the
hash-only stack_depot_fetch() API.

Use one KMSAN_STACK_DEPTH array to materialize each origin and chained
stack in turn. Preserve the chain's head and next-origin handles before
reusing the array for the chained stack. The array covers both the regular
save limit and the smaller synthetic records.

lib/stackdepot.c is uninstrumented, so stack_depot_fetch_into() unpoisons
the successfully copied range before returning it to KMSAN. Remove the
now-redundant explicit unpoisoning of chained entries. Origin depth and
use-after-free metadata remain in the handle's extra bits and are
unchanged.

Update test_stackdepot_roundtrip() to use caller-owned storage while
retaining its frame-count and kmsan_check_memory() checks. This verifies
that the copy-out API returns initialized entries to instrumented callers.

Signed-off-by: Caleb Kan <ckan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c | 4 ++--
mm/kmsan/report.c | 17 +++++++----------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c b/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
index 31f47cc4dab4..7c04e4b21873 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static void test_long_origin_chain(struct kunit *test)
*/
static void test_stackdepot_roundtrip(struct kunit *test)
{
- unsigned long src_entries[16], *dst_entries;
+ unsigned long src_entries[16], dst_entries[16];
unsigned int src_nentries, dst_nentries;
EXPECTATION_NO_REPORT(expect);
depot_stack_handle_t handle;
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static void test_stackdepot_roundtrip(struct kunit *test)
stack_trace_save(src_entries, ARRAY_SIZE(src_entries), 1);
handle = stack_depot_save(src_entries, src_nentries, GFP_KERNEL);
stack_depot_print(handle);
- dst_nentries = stack_depot_fetch(handle, &dst_entries);
+ dst_nentries = stack_depot_fetch_into(handle, dst_entries, ARRAY_SIZE(dst_entries));
KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, src_nentries == dst_nentries);

kmsan_check_memory((void *)dst_entries,
diff --git a/mm/kmsan/report.c b/mm/kmsan/report.c
index d6853ce08954..c20c24cffde5 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/report.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static char *pretty_descr(char *descr)

void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
{
- unsigned long *entries = NULL, *chained_entries = NULL;
+ unsigned long entries[KMSAN_STACK_DEPTH];
unsigned int nr_entries, chained_nr_entries, skipnr;
void *pc1 = NULL, *pc2 = NULL;
depot_stack_handle_t head;
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
return;

while (true) {
- nr_entries = stack_depot_fetch(origin, &entries);
+ nr_entries =
+ stack_depot_fetch_into(origin, entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries));
depth = kmsan_depth_from_eb(stack_depot_get_extra_bits(origin));
magic = nr_entries ? entries[0] : 0;
if ((nr_entries == 4) && (magic == KMSAN_ALLOCA_MAGIC_ORIGIN)) {
@@ -123,14 +124,10 @@ void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
origin = entries[2];
pr_err("Uninit was stored to memory at:\n");
chained_nr_entries =
- stack_depot_fetch(head, &chained_entries);
- kmsan_internal_unpoison_memory(
- chained_entries,
- chained_nr_entries * sizeof(*chained_entries),
- /*checked*/ false);
- skipnr = get_stack_skipnr(chained_entries,
- chained_nr_entries);
- stack_trace_print(chained_entries + skipnr,
+ stack_depot_fetch_into(head, entries,
+ ARRAY_SIZE(entries));
+ skipnr = get_stack_skipnr(entries, chained_nr_entries);
+ stack_trace_print(entries + skipnr,
chained_nr_entries - skipnr, 0);
pr_err("\n");
continue;

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