Re: [PATCH v2 14/14] kasan: don't run tests when KASAN is not enabled

From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 11:40:41 EST


On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 17:22, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Don't run KASAN tests when it's disabled with kasan.mode=off to avoid
> corrupting kernel memory.
>
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I6447af436a69a94bfc35477f6bf4e2122948355e
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/test_kasan.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
> index d9f9a93922d5..0c8279d9907e 100644
> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ static bool multishot;
> */
> static int kasan_test_init(struct kunit *test)
> {
> + if (!kasan_enabled())
> + return -1;

This should WARN_ON() or pr_err(). Otherwise it's impossible to say
why the test couldn't initialize.

> multishot = kasan_save_enable_multi_shot();
> hw_set_tagging_report_once(false);
> return 0;
> --
> 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
>