Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Kernel address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger.

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon Sep 29 2014 - 10:23:13 EST


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So in kernel we will need to support all API versions, and the
>> following looks like a much simpler way to identify current API
>> version:
>>> #if __GNUC__ == 5
>>> #define ASAN_V4
>
> What about having compiler(s) predefine some __SANITIZE_ADDRESS_ABI__
> macro for this? Hacking on __GNUC__ may not work given the zoo of GCC
> versions out there (FSF, Linaro, vendor toolchains, etc.)?

I don't have strong preference here... well, actually just not competent :)

But on the second though... what do we want to do with pre-build
modules? Can you envision that somebody distributes binary modules
built with asan?
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