On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:10:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:35:04 +0200 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > This patchset adds a new mode to KASAN [1], which is called KHWASAN >> > (Kernel HardWare assisted Address SANitizer). >> >> We're at v6 and there are no reviewed-by's or acked-by's to be seen. >> Is that a fair commentary on what has been happening, or have people >> been remiss in sending and gathering such things? > > I still have concerns about the consequences of merging this as anything > other than a debug option [1]. Unfortunately, merging it as a debug option > defeats the whole point, so I think we need to spend more effort on developing > tools that can help us to find and fix the subtle bugs which will arise from > enabling tagged pointers in the kernel. I totally don't mind calling it a debug option. Do I need to somehow specify it somewhere? Why does it defeat the point? The point is to ease KASAN-like testing on devices with limited memory.
