linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] replace memory function

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Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:05:55 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Abbott Liu <liuwenliang@...wei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] replace memory function

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:22:18PM +0800, Abbott Liu wrote:
> From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>
> 
> Functions like memset/memmove/memcpy do a lot of memory accesses.
> If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important
> to catch this. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since
> these functions are written in assembly.
> 
> KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
> Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions
> in mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
> with '__' prefix in name, so we could call non-instrumented variant
> if needed.

KASAN in the decompressor makes no sense, so I think you need to
mark the decompressor compilation as such in this patch so it,
as a whole, sees no change.

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