[PATCH v3 03/10] kmsan: use stack_depot_fetch_into() for origin reports
From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Nov 13 2026 - 14:42:32 EST
From: Caleb Kan <ckan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
KMSAN stores ordinary origin stacks and synthetic alloca and chain origins
in stack depot and retains the resulting persistent handles. Once a later
patch stores compressed frames, these handles can refer to records whose
frames must be decompressed before use, while kmsan_print_origin() still
relies on the pointer-returning 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.
Pass the scratch array into a common origin-printing helper. Keep local
storage for standalone kmsan_print_origin() calls, but let kmsan_report()
reuse its existing stack_entries array after printing the report stack.
With x86-64 Clang 19, the regular nested report path uses 752 bytes, below
its 768-byte size before this conversion.
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>
[mfleming: reworded for compressed frames]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c | 4 ++--
mm/kmsan/report.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 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..0770658ba932 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/report.c
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ static char *pretty_descr(char *descr)
return report_local_descr;
}
-void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
+static void kmsan_print_origin_with_buf(depot_stack_handle_t origin,
+ unsigned long *entries)
{
- unsigned long *entries = NULL, *chained_entries = NULL;
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, KMSAN_STACK_DEPTH);
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,
+ KMSAN_STACK_DEPTH);
+ skipnr = get_stack_skipnr(entries, chained_nr_entries);
+ stack_trace_print(entries + skipnr,
chained_nr_entries - skipnr, 0);
pr_err("\n");
continue;
@@ -147,6 +144,13 @@ void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
}
}
+void kmsan_print_origin(depot_stack_handle_t origin)
+{
+ unsigned long entries[KMSAN_STACK_DEPTH];
+
+ kmsan_print_origin_with_buf(origin, entries);
+}
+
void kmsan_report(depot_stack_handle_t origin, void *address, int size,
int off_first, int off_last, const void __user *user_addr,
enum kmsan_bug_reason reason)
@@ -193,7 +197,7 @@ void kmsan_report(depot_stack_handle_t origin, void *address, int size,
0);
pr_err("\n");
- kmsan_print_origin(origin);
+ kmsan_print_origin_with_buf(origin, stack_entries);
if (size) {
pr_err("\n");
--
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