linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: kfence: Only load kfence

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Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:59:04 +0200
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Cc:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: kfence: Only load kfence_test when kfence is enabled

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 11:55, Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com> wrote:
> On 2021/8/25 17:31, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:17 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com> wrote:
> >> Provide kfence_is_enabled() helper, only load kfence_test module
> >> when kfence is enabled.
> > What's wrong with the current behavior?
> > I think we need at least some way to tell the developer that KFENCE
> > does not work, and a failing test seems to be the perfect one.
>
> If the kfence is not enabled, eg kfence.sample_interval=0, kfence_test
> spend too much time,
>
> and all tests will fails. It is meaningless. so better to just skip it ;)

But what is your usecase?

I'd like to avoid the export of a new function that is pretty much unused.