linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: Archs don't check memmove if not support it.

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Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Nick Hu <nickhu@...estech.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: Archs don't check memmove if not support
 it.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> On 10/8/19 9:11 AM, Nick Hu wrote:
> > Skip the memmove checking for those archs who don't support it.
>  
> The patch is fine but the changelog sounds misleading. We don't skip memmove checking.
> If arch don't have memmove than the C implementation from lib/string.c used.
> It's instrumented by compiler so it's checked and we simply don't need that KASAN's memmove with
> manual checks.

Thanks Andrey.  Nick, could you please update the patch description?

- Paul