Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] kasan, x86: move KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET to the arch Kconfig

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 03:43:45 EST


On 05/16/2015 02:27 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:59 +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>
>> +config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
>> + hex
>> + default 0xdffffc0000000000
>
> This sets CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET for _all_ X86 configurations,
> doesn't it?
>

Right.

>> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
>> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
>
>> -config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
>> - hex
>> - default 0xdffffc0000000000 if X86_64
>
> While here it used to depend, at least, on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN. But grepping
> the tree shows the two places where CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET is
> currently used are guarded by #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN. So perhaps the
> default line should actually read
> default 0xdffffc0000000000 if KASAN
>
> after the move. Would that work?
>

Yes, but I would rather add "depends on KASAN".

>
> Paul Bolle
>
>

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