Re: [PATCH v9 02/44] kasan: KASAN_VMALLOC depends on KASAN_GENERIC

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Wed Nov 11 2020 - 08:19:30 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:11 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently only generic KASAN mode supports vmalloc, reflect that
> in the config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Change-Id: I1889e5b3bed28cc5d607802fb6ae43ba461c0dc1
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.kasan | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 542a9c18398e..8f0742a0f23e 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS_IDENTIFY
>
> config KASAN_VMALLOC
> bool "Back mappings in vmalloc space with real shadow memory"
> - depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
> + depends on KASAN_GENERIC && HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
> help
> By default, the shadow region for vmalloc space is the read-only
> zero page. This means that KASAN cannot detect errors involving
> --
> 2.29.2.222.g5d2a92d10f8-goog
>


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