On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 12/13/2016 11:58 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > >> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst >> @@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile: >> >> KASAN_SANITIZE := n >> >> +Sometimes it may be useful to disable instrumentation of reads, or writes >> +or both for the entire kernel. For example, if binary size is a concern, >> +it may be useful to disable instrumentation of reads to reduce binary size but >> +still catch more harmful bugs on writes. Or, if one is interested only in >> +sanitization of a particular module and performance is a concern, she can >> +disable instrumentation of both reads and writes for kernel code. >> +Instrumentation can be disabled with CONFIG_KASAN_READS and >> CONFIG_KASAN_WRITES. >> + > > I don't understand this. How this can be related to modules? Configs are global. > You can't just disable/enable config per module. Build everything without instrumentation. Then enable instrumentation and do "make lib/test_kasan.ko". Or build everything, copy out bzImage, change config, build everything again. -- 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
