diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst index 2a53a801198c..55fa82212eb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kmsan.rst @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ uninitialized in the local variable, as well as the stack where the value was copied to another memory location before use. A use of uninitialized value ``v`` is reported by KMSAN in the following cases: + - in a condition, e.g. ``if (v) { ... }``; - in an indexing or pointer dereferencing, e.g. ``array[v]`` or ``*v``; - when it is copied to userspace or hardware, e.g. ``copy_to_user(..., &v, ...)``;