Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] KASAN for arm64

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On 10/08/2015 02:11 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 01:36:09PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> 2015-10-07 13:04 GMT+03:00 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>:
>>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:38:06PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>>>> As usual patches available in git
>>>>       git://github.com/aryabinin/linux.git kasan/arm64v6
>>>>
>>>> Changes since v5:
>>>>  - Rebase on top of 4.3-rc1
>>>>  - Fixed EFI boot.
>>>>  - Updated Doc/features/KASAN.
>>>
>>> I tried to merge these patches (apart from the x86 one which is already
>>> merged) but it still doesn't boot on Juno as an EFI application.
>>>
>>
>> 4.3-rc1 was ok and 4.3-rc4 is not. Break caused by 0ce3cc008ec04
>> ("arm64/efi: Fix boot crash by not padding between EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME
>> regions")
>> It introduced sort() call in efi_get_virtmap().
>> sort() is generic kernel function and it's instrumented, so we crash
>> when KASAN tries to access shadow in sort().
> 
> I believe this is solved by Ard's stub isolation series [1,2], which
> will build a stub-specific copy of sort() and various other functions
> (see the arm-deps in [2]).
> 
> So long as the stub is not built with ASAN, that should work.

Thanks, this should help, as we already build the stub without ASAN instrumentation.

> 
> Mark.
> 
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-October/373807.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-October/373808.html
> 

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