linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] kasan: support alloca() poisoning

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:49:58 -0700
From:   Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
To:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kasan: support alloca() poisoning

On 07/10/2017 03:30 AM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> gcc now supports this too. So I think this patch should enable it.
> It's off by default so you'll have to add --param asan-instrument-allocas=1 into cflags
> to make it work

Thanks, will fix.  For now, it looks like I'll need to build gcc from 
git to test this?

>>   lib/test_kasan.c  | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Tests would be better as a separate patch.

I was following the precedent in 828347f8f9a5 ("kasan: support 
use-after-scope detection") which added both at the same time.  But I 
can split the test off into a separate patch if you feel really strongly 
about it.