Re: [PATCH V2] kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8()

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon Sep 14 2015 - 11:17:28 EST


2015-09-14 5:09 GMT+03:00 Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Use IS_ALIGNED() to determine whether the shadow span two bytes.
> It generates less code and more readable. Add some comments in
> shadow check functions.
>
> Please apply "kasan: fix last shadow judgement in memory_is_poisoned_16()"
> first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/kasan/kasan.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> index 8da2114..00d5605 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ static __always_inline bool memory_is_poisoned_2(unsigned long addr)
> if (memory_is_poisoned_1(addr + 1))
> return true;
>
> + /*
> + * If the shadow spans two bytes, the first byte should
> + * be zero.

Hmm.. I found this comment a bit odd.

How about this:
/*
* If single shadow byte covers 2-byte access,
* we don't need to do anything more.
* Otherwise, test the first shadow byte.
*/

?
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