Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: Archs don't check memmove if not support it.

From: Paul Walmsley
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 01:41:00 EST


On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> On 10/8/19 9:11 AM, Nick Hu wrote:
> > Skip the memmove checking for those archs who don't support it.
>
> The patch is fine but the changelog sounds misleading. We don't skip memmove checking.
> If arch don't have memmove than the C implementation from lib/string.c used.
> It's instrumented by compiler so it's checked and we simply don't need that KASAN's memmove with
> manual checks.

Thanks Andrey. Nick, could you please update the patch description?

- Paul