On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:15:42 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan > >> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan > >> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN > >> > >> config KASAN > >> bool "AddressSanitizer: runtime memory debugger" > >> + depends on !MEMORY_HOTPLUG > >> help > >> Enables address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger, > >> designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs. > > > > That's a significant restriction. It has obvious runtime implications. > > It also means that `make allmodconfig' and `make allyesconfig' don't > > enable kasan, so compile coverage will be impacted. > > > > This wasn't changelogged. What's the reasoning and what has to be done > > to fix it? > > > > Yes, this is runtime dependency. Hot adding memory won't work. > Since we don't have shadow for hotplugged memory, kernel will crash on the first access to it. > To fix this we need to allocate shadow for new memory. > > Perhaps it would be better to have a runtime warning instead of Kconfig dependecy? Is there a plan to get mem-hotplug working with kasan, btw? It doesn't strike me as very important/urgent. Please add a sentence about this to the changelog as well. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
