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Commit f80be457 authored by Alexander Potapenko's avatar Alexander Potapenko Committed by Andrew Morton
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kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core

For each memory location KernelMemorySanitizer maintains two types of
metadata:

1. The so-called shadow of that location - а byte:byte mapping describing
   whether or not individual bits of memory are initialized (shadow is 0)
   or not (shadow is 1).
2. The origins of that location - а 4-byte:4-byte mapping containing
   4-byte IDs of the stack traces where uninitialized values were
   created.

Each struct page now contains pointers to two struct pages holding KMSAN
metadata (shadow and origins) for the original struct page.  Utility
routines in mm/kmsan/core.c and mm/kmsan/shadow.c handle the metadata
creation, addressing, copying and checking.  mm/kmsan/report.c performs
error reporting in the cases an uninitialized value is used in a way that
leads to undefined behavior.

KMSAN compiler instrumentation is responsible for tracking the metadata
along with the kernel memory.  mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c provides the
implementation for instrumentation hooks that are calle...
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