Re: [PATCH v10 02/17] x86_64: add KASan support

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On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:15:42 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> >> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> >> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
> >>  
> >>  config KASAN
> >>  	bool "AddressSanitizer: runtime memory debugger"
> >> +	depends on !MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> >>  	help
> >>  	  Enables address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger,
> >>  	  designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
> > 
> > That's a significant restriction.  It has obvious runtime implications.
> > It also means that `make allmodconfig' and `make allyesconfig' don't
> > enable kasan, so compile coverage will be impacted.
> > 
> > This wasn't changelogged.  What's the reasoning and what has to be done
> > to fix it?
> > 
> 
> Yes, this is runtime dependency. Hot adding memory won't work.
> Since we don't have shadow for hotplugged memory, kernel will crash on the first access to it.
> To fix this we need to allocate shadow for new memory.
> 
> Perhaps it would be better to have a runtime warning instead of Kconfig dependecy?

Is there a plan to get mem-hotplug working with kasan, btw?  It doesn't
strike me as very important/urgent.  Please add a sentence about this
to the changelog as well.

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