linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters

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Message-ID: <20201112113541.GK29613@gaia>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:35:42 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:20:15PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Hardware tag-based KASAN mode is intended to eventually be used in
> production as a security mitigation. Therefore there's a need for finer
> control over KASAN features and for an existence of a kill switch.
> 
> This change adds a few boot parameters for hardware tag-based KASAN that
> allow to disable or otherwise control particular KASAN features.
> 
> The features that can be controlled are:
> 
> 1. Whether KASAN is enabled at all.
> 2. Whether KASAN collects and saves alloc/free stacks.
> 3. Whether KASAN panics on a detected bug or not.
> 
> With this change a new boot parameter kasan.mode allows to choose one of
> three main modes:
> 
> - kasan.mode=off - KASAN is disabled, no tag checks are performed
> - kasan.mode=prod - only essential production features are enabled
> - kasan.mode=full - all KASAN features are enabled

Alternative naming if we want to avoid "production" (in case someone
considers MTE to be expensive in a production system):

- kasan.mode=off
- kasan.mode=on
- kasan.mode=debug

Anyway, whatever you prefer is fine by me:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>