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Message-Id: <86cc686f415fa4a47de1a0394a74390964450e48.1441290220.git.andreyknvl@google.com>
Date:	Thu,  3 Sep 2015 16:47:40 +0200
From:	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	dvyukov@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] kasan: various fixes in documentation

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/kasan.txt | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 0d32355..d2f4c8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -1,32 +1,31 @@
-Kernel address sanitizer
-================
+KernelAddressSanitizer (KASAN)
+==============================
 
 0. Overview
 ===========
 
-Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides
+KernelAddressSANitizer (KASAN) is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides
 a fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds
 bugs.
 
-KASan uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
-therefore you will need a gcc version of 4.9.2 or later. KASan could detect out
-of bounds accesses to stack or global variables, but only if gcc 5.0 or later was
-used to built the kernel.
+KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
+therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is
+required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables.
 
-Currently KASan is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires that the
-kernel be built with the SLUB allocator.
+Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires the
+kernel to be built with the SLUB allocator.
 
 1. Usage
-=========
+========
 
 To enable KASAN configure kernel with:
 
 	  CONFIG_KASAN = y
 
-and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline/inline
-is compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary the
-latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a gcc version
-of 5.0 or later.
+and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline and
+inline are compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary
+the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a GCC
+version 5.0 or later.
 
 Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator.
 For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile:
                 KASAN_SANITIZE := n
 
 1.1 Error reports
-==========
+=================
 
 A typical out of bounds access report looks like this:
 
@@ -119,14 +118,16 @@ Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff8800693bc800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ==================================================================
 
-First sections describe slub object where bad access happened.
-See 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details.
+The header of the report discribe what kind of bug happend and what kind of
+access caused it. It's followed by the description of the accessed slub object
+(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details) and
+the description of the accessed memory page.
 
 In the last section the report shows memory state around the accessed address.
-Reading this part requires some more understanding of how KASAN works.
+Reading this part requires some understanding of how KASAN works.
 
-Each 8 bytes of memory are encoded in one shadow byte as accessible,
-partially accessible, freed or they can be part of a redzone.
+The state of each 8 aligned bytes of memory is encoded in one shadow byte.
+Those 8 bytes can be accessible, partially accessible, freed or be a redzone.
 We use the following encoding for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
 of the corresponding memory region are accessible; number N (1 <= N <= 7) means
 that the first N bytes are accessible, and other (8 - N) bytes are not;
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ the accessed address is partially accessible.
 
 
 2. Implementation details
-========================
+=========================
 
 From a high level, our approach to memory error detection is similar to that
 of kmemcheck: use shadow memory to record whether each byte of memory is safe
-- 
2.5.0.457.gab17608

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