2014-10-24 12:31 GMT+04:00 y.gribov <y.gribov@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Unaligned accesses disabled because they are allowed on some arches (see
> HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS).
>> Another reason is that there are to many reports. Not because there are
>> lot of bugs, but because
>> there are many reports for one bug.
>
> A side note - unaligned accesses would prevent KASan from doing it's job
> well because instrumentation code relies on address alignment when
> performing the check.
>
I guess it only matters for inline instrumentation, right?
Because in outline case I've taken care about unaligned accesses.
We could do following trick in Kconfig:
select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS if !KASAN
This will prevent a lot of unaligned accesses, but surely not all of them
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Best regards,
Andrey Ryabinin
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