linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 01/13] x86/paravirt: Turn KASAN off for parvirt.o

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Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:59:16 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/13] x86/paravirt: Turn KASAN off for parvirt.o

+ Andrey.

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:15:19PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Otherwise terrible things happen if some of the callbacks end up
> calling into KASAN in unexpected places.
> 
> This has no obvious symptoms yet, but adding a memory reference to
> native_flush_tlb_global without this blows up on KASAN kernels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> index b1b78ffe01d0..b7cd5bdf314b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ endif
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_head$(BITS).o := n
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_dumpstack.o := n
>  KASAN_SANITIZE_dumpstack_$(BITS).o := n
> +KASAN_SANITIZE_paravirt.o := n
>  
>  CFLAGS_irq.o := -I$(src)/../include/asm/trace

Shouldn't we take this one irrespectively of what happens to the rest in
the patchset?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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