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| author | Marco Elver <elver@google.com> | 2020-10-13 16:47:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-13 18:38:26 -0700 |
| commit | 527f6750d92beb9c787d8aba48477b1e834d64e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ab346abd5fc13c0c70a10323ea06c49f2ba0067 /lib | |
| parent | 3511af0a72efb2ba5df7f1b4c8c1bf3b1a19a9ea (diff) | |
kasan: remove mentions of unsupported Clang versions
Since the kernel now requires at least Clang 10.0.1, remove any mention of
old Clang versions and simplify the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-7-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kasan | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 047b53dbfd58..033a5bc67ac4 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC Enables generic KASAN mode. This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires - version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or - later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables - is supported only since Clang 11. + version 8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible, + but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is + supported only since Clang 11. This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations. @@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS Enables software tag-based KASAN mode. This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore - is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 - or later. + is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang. This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations. |