On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 2:39 PM Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > kasan_hw_tags_enabled() is also false when kasan is just not initialized yet. > > > What about writing a new helper something like kasan_is_disabled() > > > instead? > > > > The decision of whether to enable KASAN is made early, before the slab > > allocator is initialized (start_kernel -> smp_prepare_boot_cpu -> > > kasan_init_hw_tags vs start_kernel -> mm_init -> kmem_cache_init). If > > you think about it, this needs to be the case for KASAN to operate > > correctly because it influences the behavior of the slab allocator via > > the kasan_*poison* hooks. So I don't think we can end up calling this > > function before then. > > Sounds not bad. I wanted to make sure the value of arch_slab_minaligned() > is not changed during its execution. > > Just some part of me thought something like this would be more > intuitive/robust. > > if (systems_supports_mte() && kasan_arg != KASAN_ARG_OFF) > return MTE_GRANULE_SIZE; > else > return __alignof__(unsigned long long); Hi Hyeonggon, We could add and use kasan_hw_rags_requested(), which would return (systems_supports_mte() && kasan_arg != KASAN_ARG_OFF). However, I'm not sure we will get a fully static behavior: systems_supports_mte() also only starts returning proper result at some point during CPU bring-up if I'm not mistaken. Thanks!
