linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 02/10] kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs

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Date:	Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:03:28 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 02/10] kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs

Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com> writes:

> 2015-08-26 11:26 GMT+03:00 Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>> Conditionalize the check using #ifdef
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/kasan/report.c | 11 ++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
>> index e07c94fbd0ac..71ce7548d914 100644
>> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
>> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
>> @@ -85,9 +85,14 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
>>
>>  static inline bool kernel_or_module_addr(const void *addr)
>>  {
>> -       return (addr >= (void *)_stext && addr < (void *)_end)
>> -               || (addr >= (void *)MODULES_VADDR
>> -                       && addr < (void *)MODULES_END);
>> +       if (addr >= (void *)_stext && addr < (void *)_end)
>> +               return true;
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) && defined(MODULES_VADDR)
>> +       if (addr >= (void *)MODULES_VADDR
>> +                       && addr < (void *)MODULES_END)
>> +               return true;
>> +#endif
>
> I don't think that this is correct change.
> On ppc64 modules are in VMALLOC, so you should check for this.
> Yes, we don't handle VMALLOC now, but we will at some point.
>
> So I think we should use is_module_address() here.
> It will be slower, but we don't care about performance in error reporting route.

Will fix in the next update.

-aneesh

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