linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] arm64: add KASan support

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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:18:33 +0300
From:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
To:	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
Cc:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Keitel <dkeitel@...eaurora.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] arm64: add KASan support

2015-08-24 19:16 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>:
> On 24/08/15 17:00, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> 2015-08-24 18:44 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>:
>>>
>>> Another option would be having "sparse" shadow memory based on page
>>> extension. I did play with that some time ago based on ideas from
>>> original v1 KASan support for x86/arm - it is how 614be38 "irqchip:
>>> gic-v3: Fix out of bounds access to cpu_logical_map" was caught.
>>> It doesn't require any VA reservations, only some contiguous memory for
>>> the page_ext itself, which serves as indirection level for the 0-order
>>> shadow pages.
>>
>> We won't be able to use inline instrumentation (I could live with that),
>> and most importantly, we won't be able to use stack instrumentation.
>> GCC needs to know shadow address for inline and/or stack instrumentation
>> to generate correct code.
>
> It's definitely a trade-off ;)
>
> Just for my understanding does that stack instrumentation is controlled
> via -asan-stack?
>

Yup.
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