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parent 9716e57a0195dae356ae1425df121988abd27131
parent 1f44328ea24c9de368a3cfe5cc0e110b949afb2e
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1591926943 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1591926943 -0700
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 tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-11
 tagger Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1591909343 +0200
 
 The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN)
 
 KCSAN is a dynamic race detector, which relies on compile-time
 instrumentation, and uses a watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect
 races.
 
 The feature was under development for quite some time and has already found
 legitimate bugs.
 
 Unfortunately it comes with a limitation, which was only understood late in
 the development cycle:
 
   It requires an up to date CLANG-11 compiler
 
 CLANG-11 is not yet released (scheduled for June), but it's the only
 compiler today which handles the kernel requirements and especially the
 annotations of functions to exclude them from KCSAN instrumentation
 correctly.
 
 These annotations really need to work so that low level entry code and
 especially int3 text poke handling can be completely isolated.
 
 A detailed discussion of the requirements and compiler issues can be found
 here:
 
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANpmjNMTsY_8241bS7=XAfqvZHFLrVEkv_uM4aDUWE_kh3Rvbw@mail.gmail.com/
 
 We came to the conclusion that trying to work around compiler limitations
 and bugs again would end up in a major trainwreck, so requiring a working
 compiler seemed to be the best choice.
 
 For Continous Integration purposes the compiler restriction is manageable
 and that's where most xxSAN reports come from.
 
 For a change this limitation might make GCC people actually look at their
 bugs. Some issues with CSAN in GCC are 7 years old and one has been 'fixed'
 3 years ago with a half baken solution which 'solved' the reported issue
 but not the underlying problem.
 
 The KCSAN developers also ponder to use a GCC plugin to become independent,
 but that's not something which will show up in a few days.
 
 Blocking KCSAN until wide spread compiler support is available is not a
 really good alternative because the continuous growth of lockless
 optimizations in the kernel demands proper tooling support.
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Merge tag 'locking-kcsan-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic race detector,
  which relies on compile-time instrumentation, and uses a
  watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races.

  The feature was under development for quite some time and has already
  found legitimate bugs.

  Unfortunately it comes with a limitation, which was only understood
  late in the development cycle:

     It requires an up to date CLANG-11 compiler

  CLANG-11 is not yet released (scheduled for June), but it's the only
  compiler today which handles the kernel requirements and especially
  the annotations of functions to exclude them from KCSAN
  instrumentation correctly.

  These annotations really need to work so that low level entry code and
  especially int3 text poke handling can be completely isolated.

  A detailed discussion of the requirements and compiler issues can be
  found here:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANpmjNMTsY_8241bS7=XAfqvZHFLrVEkv_uM4aDUWE_kh3Rvbw@mail.gmail.com/

  We came to the conclusion that trying to work around compiler
  limitations and bugs again would end up in a major trainwreck, so
  requiring a working compiler seemed to be the best choice.

  For Continous Integration purposes the compiler restriction is
  manageable and that's where most xxSAN reports come from.

  For a change this limitation might make GCC people actually look at
  their bugs. Some issues with CSAN in GCC are 7 years old and one has
  been 'fixed' 3 years ago with a half baken solution which 'solved' the
  reported issue but not the underlying problem.

  The KCSAN developers also ponder to use a GCC plugin to become
  independent, but that's not something which will show up in a few
  days.

  Blocking KCSAN until wide spread compiler support is available is not
  a really good alternative because the continuous growth of lockless
  optimizations in the kernel demands proper tooling support"

* tag 'locking-kcsan-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits)
  compiler_types.h, kasan: Use __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ instead of CONFIG_KASAN to decide inlining
  compiler.h: Move function attributes to compiler_types.h
  compiler.h: Avoid nested statement expression in data_race()
  compiler.h: Remove data_race() and unnecessary checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
  kcsan: Update Documentation to change supported compilers
  kcsan: Remove 'noinline' from __no_kcsan_or_inline
  kcsan: Pass option tsan-instrument-read-before-write to Clang
  kcsan: Support distinguishing volatile accesses
  kcsan: Restrict supported compilers
  kcsan: Avoid inserting __tsan_func_entry/exit if possible
  ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang
  objtool, kcsan: Add kcsan_disable_current() and kcsan_enable_current_nowarn()
  kcsan: Add __kcsan_{enable,disable}_current() variants
  checkpatch: Warn about data_race() without comment
  kcsan: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
  Improve KCSAN documentation a bit
  kcsan: Make reporting aware of KCSAN tests
  kcsan: Fix function matching in report
  kcsan: Change data_race() to no longer require marking racing accesses
  kcsan: Move kcsan_{disable,enable}_current() to kcsan-checks.h
  ...