linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 19/25] kasan: add hooks implementation for tag-based mode

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:31:37 +0100
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 19/25] kasan: add hooks implementation for tag-based mode

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 9:38 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:33:42 +0100 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > > Curiosity, did you try your patches with SLUB red zoning enabled?
> > > Since the area used for the Redzone is just after the payload, aligning the
> > > object_size independently from the allocator could have side effects, at least
> > > if I understand well how the mechanism works.
> > >
> > > Setting ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN should avoid this as well.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Sounds good to me.
> >
> > Andrew, how should proceed with this? Send another fixup patch or
> > resend the whole series?
>
> It depends on how extensive the changes are.  I prefer a fixup, but at
> some point it's time to drop it all and start again.

The fixup in only a few lines, so I just sent it as a separate patch
named "[PATCH mm] kasan, arm64: use ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN instead of
manual aligning".

Thanks!