Re: [PATCH] kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write

From: Marco Elver
Date: Tue Jun 20 2023 - 10:49:10 EST


On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:56PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
...
> Could you move this to the section that describes the kasan.fault
> flag? This seems more consistent.

Like this?


diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 7f37a46af574..f4acf9c2e90f 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
- ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether
to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on
invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if
- ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
+ ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of
+ Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on
+ asynchronously checked accesses (including reads).

Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various
modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior: