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| author | Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> | 2015-11-05 18:51:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800 |
| commit | 89d3c87e20d95e3238eac85e43de7b3cb1f39d8b (patch) | |
| tree | 9c680ae573229c1908986e853c3eca1c3132fe28 /Documentation/kasan.txt | |
| parent | 10f702627e139e21465f4c9d44f63527bbca163c (diff) | |
mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
It's recommended to have slub's user tracking enabled with CONFIG_KASAN,
because:
a) User tracking disables slab merging which improves
detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
b) User tracking metadata acts as redzone which also improves
detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
c) User tracking provides additional information about object.
This information helps to understand bugs.
Currently it is not enabled by default. Besides recompiling the kernel
with KASAN and reinstalling it, user also have to change the boot cmdline,
which is not very handy.
Enable slub user tracking by default with KASAN=y, since there is no good
reason to not do this.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: little fixes, per David]
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kasan.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kasan.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt index 94c881579374..aa1e0c91e368 100644 --- a/Documentation/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt @@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ 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. -For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put -at least 'slub_debug=U' in the boot cmdline. +For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile: |