Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads). Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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: -- 2.41.0.185.g7c58973941-goog