From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan: update required compiler versions in documentation Updates the recently changed compiler requirements for KASAN. In particular, we require GCC >= 8.3.0, and add a note that Clang 11 supports OOB detection of globals. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629104157.3242503-2-elver@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 7b861a53e46b ("kasan: Bump required compiler version") Fixes: acf7b0bf7dcf ("kasan: Fix required compiler version") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 7 ++----- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst~kasan-update-required-compiler-versions-in-documentation +++ a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -13,11 +13,8 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that. Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version -4.9.2 or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of -out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline -instrumentation mode (see the Usage section). With Clang it requires version -7.0.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of out-of-bounds accesses for -global variables yet. +8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of +out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11. Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later. --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan~kasan-update-required-compiler-versions-in-documentation +++ a/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ choice software tag-based KASAN (a version based on software memory tagging, arm64 only, similar to userspace HWASan, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS). + Both generic and tag-based KASAN are strictly debugging features. config KASAN_GENERIC @@ -51,16 +52,18 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC select STACKDEPOT help Enables generic KASAN mode. - Supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 4.9.2 - or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of - out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline - instrumentation mode (CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE). With Clang it requires - version 3.7.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of - out-of-bounds accesses for global variables yet. + + This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires + version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or + later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables + is supported only since Clang 11. + This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations. The performance slowdown is ~x3. + For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. + Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB (the resulting kernel does not boot). @@ -73,15 +76,19 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS select STACKDEPOT help Enables software tag-based KASAN mode. + This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore - is only supported for arm64. - This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 or later. + is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 + or later. + This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations. This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each pointer. + For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. + Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB (the resulting kernel does not boot). @@ -107,7 +114,6 @@ config KASAN_INLINE memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but make kernel's .text size much bigger. - For CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC this requires GCC 5.0 or later. endchoice _
