Karl MehltretterandGreg Kroah-Hartman 23cdd0532e ARM: 9474/1: io: avoid KASAN instrumentation of raw halfword I/O ...

commit d59ed80371 upstream.

For CPUs before ARMv6, __raw_readw() and __raw_writew() are implemented
as C volatile halfword accesses so the compiler can generate an access
sequence that is safe for those machines. With KASAN enabled, those C
accesses are instrumented as normal memory accesses.

That is not valid for MMIO. On ARM926/VersatilePB with KASAN enabled,
PL011 probing traps in __asan_store2() while registering the UART, because
the instrumented writew() tries to check KASAN shadow for an MMIO address.

Keep the existing volatile halfword access, but move the ARMv5 definitions
into __no_kasan_or_inline functions so raw MMIO halfword accesses are not
instrumented by KASAN. The ARMv6-and-newer inline assembly path is
unchanged.

Fixes: 421015713b ("ARM: 9017/2: Enable KASan for ARM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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