Re: [PATCH v12 05/25] kasan: add CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC and CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 05:19:19 EST


On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:24 PM Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This commit splits the current CONFIG_KASAN config option into two:
> > 1. CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC, that enables the generic KASAN mode (the one
> > that exists now);
> > 2. CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS, that enables the software tag-based KASAN mode.
>
> [...]
>
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> > @@ -1,35 +1,95 @@
> > +# This config refers to the generic KASAN mode.
> > config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> > bool
> >
> > +config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS
> > + bool
> > +
> > +config CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
> > + def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-address)
> > +
> > +config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
> > + def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress)
> > +
> > if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> >
> > config KASAN
> > - bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger"
> > + bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
> > + help
> > + Enables KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) - runtime memory debugger,
> > + designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
> > + See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
>
> Perhaps KASAN should depend on
> CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC || CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS,
> otherwise make all*config may enable KASAN
> for a compiler that does not have any -fsanitize=kernel-*address
> support, resulting in build failures like this:
> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/13606170/log/

Will fix in v13, thanks!

>
> --
> Thanks.
> -- Max
>
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