KASAN depends on having access to some of the accounting that SLUB_DEBUG does; without it, there are immediate crashes [1]. So, the natural thing to do is to make KASAN select SLUB_DEBUG. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHmME9rtoPwxUSnktxzKso14iuVCWT7BE_-_8PAC=pGw1iJnQg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: f9e13c0a5a33 ("slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()") Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 3d35d062970d..c253c1b46c6b 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN config KASAN bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger" depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB) + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB select CONSTRUCTORS select STACKDEPOT help -- 2.17.1