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From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 10:53:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/stackdepot.c: use a non-instrumented version of memcpy()
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 6:45 PM Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
wrote:

> On 05/16/2018 06:34 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > stackdepot used to call memcpy(), which compiler tools normally
> > instrument, therefore every lookup used to unnecessarily call
instrumented
> > code.  This is somewhat ok in the case of KASAN, but under KMSAN a lot
of
> > time was spent in the instrumentation.
> >
> > (A similar change has been previously committed for memcmp())
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> > Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/stackdepot.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/stackdepot.c b/lib/stackdepot.c
> > index e513459a5601..d48c744fa750 100644
> > --- a/lib/stackdepot.c
> > +++ b/lib/stackdepot.c
> > @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static struct stack_record
*depot_alloc_stack(unsigned long *entries, int size,
> >       stack->handle.slabindex =3D depot_index;
> >       stack->handle.offset =3D depot_offset >> STACK_ALLOC_ALIGN;
> >       stack->handle.valid =3D 1;
> > -     memcpy(stack->entries, entries, size * sizeof(unsigned long));
> > +     __memcpy(stack->entries, entries, size * sizeof(unsigned long));

> This has no effect. Since the whole file is not instrumented memcpy
automagically replaced with __memcpy.
You're right, we just didn't have the code defining memcpy() to __memcpy()
in KMSAN. I'll fix that instead.


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