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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress KMSAN reports in arch_within_stack_frames()
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 03:27:49PM +0100, Alexander Potapenko wrote:

> In other words, for normal instrumentation:
>  - locals are explicitly marked as uninitialized;
>  - shadow values are calculated for arithmetic operations based on their inputs;
>  - shadow values are checked for branches, pointer dereferences, and
> before passing them as function arguments;
>  - memory stores update shadow for affected variables.
> 
> For __no_kmsan_checks:
>  - locals are explicitly marked as initialized;
>  - no instrumentation is added for arithmetic operations, branches,
> pointer dereferences;
>  - all function arguments are marked as initialized;
>  - stores always mark memory as initialized.
> 
> For __no_sanitize_memory:
>  - no instrumentation for locals (they may end up being initialized or
> uninitialized - doesn't matter, because their shadow values are never
> used);
>  - no instrumentation for arithmetic operations, branches, pointer dereferences;
>  - no instrumentation for function calls (an instrumented function
> will receive garbage shadow values from a non-instrumented one);
>  - no instrumentation for stores (initialization done in these
> functions is invisible).

Thanks! That is a great summary.