Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] KASan for arm

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 05:26:57 EST


On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 10:44 AM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20-03-05 09:43, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:55 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Let me submit and rebase v7 get the auto builders some days to see if it
> > > exposes a new build issue and then we toss it to RMK's patch tracker and
> > > fix bugs from there?
> >
> > Sorry for hammering, can we get some initial patches going into
> > Russell's patch tracker here? I can sign them off and put them in
> > if you don't have time.
>
> I've tested the branch on several imx6 based boards with different
> toolchains. Some boards booting normal and some of them are lost in
> space... I didn't debugged it yet just wanted to inform you.

Hm. I will bring up the KASan stack on more boards.

If the system is anywhere close to being low on memory they
will naturally crash, this is an unavoidable side effect of KASan
or anything else that just chew of a big chunk of memory, that I ran into,
as I was booting from initramfs on very memory
constrained systems.

Yours,
Linus Walleij