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[PATCH 1/3] kasan: allow kasan_check_read/write() to accept pointers to volatiles

From Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/3] kasan: allow kasan_check_read/write() to accept pointers to volatiles
Date 2017-03-14 20:30 +0100
Message-ID <tl0iS-4M7-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Currently kasan_check_read/write() accept 'const void*', make them
accept 'const volatile void*'. This is required for instrumentation
of atomic operations and there is just no reason to not allow that.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
 include/linux/kasan-checks.h | 10 ++++++----
 mm/kasan/kasan.c             |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kasan-checks.h b/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
index b7f8aced7870..41960fecf783 100644
--- a/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
+++ b/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 #define _LINUX_KASAN_CHECKS_H
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
-void kasan_check_read(const void *p, unsigned int size);
-void kasan_check_write(const void *p, unsigned int size);
+void kasan_check_read(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size);
+void kasan_check_write(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size);
 #else
-static inline void kasan_check_read(const void *p, unsigned int size) { }
-static inline void kasan_check_write(const void *p, unsigned int size) { }
+static inline void kasan_check_read(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size)
+{ }
+static inline void kasan_check_write(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size)
+{ }
 #endif
 
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index 98b27195e38b..db46e66eb1d4 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -333,13 +333,13 @@ static void check_memory_region(unsigned long addr,
 	check_memory_region_inline(addr, size, write, ret_ip);
 }
 
-void kasan_check_read(const void *p, unsigned int size)
+void kasan_check_read(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size)
 {
 	check_memory_region((unsigned long)p, size, false, _RET_IP_);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasan_check_read);
 
-void kasan_check_write(const void *p, unsigned int size)
+void kasan_check_write(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size)
 {
 	check_memory_region((unsigned long)p, size, true, _RET_IP_);
 }
-- 
2.12.0.367.g23dc2f6d3c-goog

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