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| author | Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> | 2016-03-25 14:21:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-25 16:37:42 -0700 |
| commit | 7ed2f9e663854db313f177a511145630e398b402 (patch) | |
| tree | f9dfba81a688864a4d78689470f624b0a482f545 /Documentation | |
| parent | e6e8379c876de16c6b78f83b15d5ac32c79cb440 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7ed2f9e663854db313f177a511145630e398b402.tar.gz lwn-7ed2f9e663854db313f177a511145630e398b402.zip | |
mm, kasan: SLAB support
Add KASAN hooks to SLAB allocator.
This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB
allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kasan.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt index aa1e0c91e368..7dd95b35cd7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables. -Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires the -kernel to be built with the SLUB allocator. +Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture. 1. Usage ======== @@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ inline are compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a GCC version 5.0 or later. -Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator. +KASAN works with both SLUB and SLAB memory allocators. For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line |