[PATCH] ubsan: turn off kmsan inside of ubsan instrumentation

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Arnd Bergmann

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Mar 6, 2026, 10:06:21 AMMar 6
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From: Arnd Bergmann <ar...@arndb.de>

The structure initialization in the two type mismatch handling functions
causes a call to __msan_memset() to be generated inside of a UACCESS
block, which in turn leads to an objtool warning about possibly leaking
uaccess-enabled state:

lib/ubsan.o: warning: objtool: __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch+0xda: call to __msan_memset() with UACCESS enabled
lib/ubsan.o: warning: objtool: __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0xf4: call to __msan_memset() with UACCESS enabled

Most likely __msan_memset() is safe to be called here and could be added
to the uaccess_safe_builtin[] list of safe functions, but seeing that
the ubsan file itself already has kasan, ubsan and kcsan disabled itself,
it is probably a good idea to also turn off kmsan here, in particular this
also avoids the risk of recursing between ubsan and kcsan checks in
other functions of this file.

I saw this happen while testing randconfig builds with clang-22, but did
not try older versions, or attempt to see which kernel change introduced
the warning.

Cc: Kees Cook <ke...@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <el...@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabin...@gmail.com>
Cc: kasa...@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-h...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <ar...@arndb.de>
---
lib/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index 280a71e4f813..3e1eeefd9832 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UBSAN) += ubsan.o
UBSAN_SANITIZE_ubsan.o := n
KASAN_SANITIZE_ubsan.o := n
KCSAN_SANITIZE_ubsan.o := n
+KMSAN_SANITIZE_ubsan.o := n
CFLAGS_ubsan.o := -fno-stack-protector $(DISABLE_KSTACK_ERASE)

obj-$(CONFIG_SBITMAP) += sbitmap.o
--
2.39.5

Andrey Ryabinin

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Mar 6, 2026, 2:25:20 PMMar 6
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Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabin...@gmail.com>
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