The patch titled Subject: kasan: clean up kasan_requires_meta has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is kasan-clean-up-kasan_requires_meta.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kasan-clean-up-kasan_requires_meta.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan: clean up kasan_requires_meta Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:04:46 +0100 Currently, for Generic KASAN mode, kasan_requires_meta is defined to return kasan_stack_collection_enabled. Even though the Generic mode does not support disabling stack trace collection, kasan_requires_meta was implemented in this way to make it easier to implement the disabling for the Generic mode in the future. However, for the Generic mode, the per-object metadata also stores the quarantine link. So even if disabling stack collection is implemented, the per-object metadata will still be required. Fix kasan_requires_meta to return true for the Generic mode and update the related comments. This change does not fix any observable bugs but rather just brings the code to a cleaner state. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8086623407095ac1c82377a2107dcc5845f99cfa.1703188911.git.andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/kasan.h | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h~kasan-clean-up-kasan_requires_meta +++ a/mm/kasan/kasan.h @@ -101,21 +101,21 @@ static inline bool kasan_sample_page_all #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC -/* Generic KASAN uses per-object metadata to store stack traces. */ +/* + * Generic KASAN uses per-object metadata to store alloc and free stack traces + * and the quarantine link. + */ static inline bool kasan_requires_meta(void) { - /* - * Technically, Generic KASAN always collects stack traces right now. - * However, let's use kasan_stack_collection_enabled() in case the - * kasan.stacktrace command-line argument is changed to affect - * Generic KASAN. - */ - return kasan_stack_collection_enabled(); + return true; } #else /* CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC */ -/* Tag-based KASAN modes do not use per-object metadata. */ +/* + * Tag-based KASAN modes do not use per-object metadata: they use the stack + * ring to store alloc and free stack traces and do not use qurantine. + */ static inline bool kasan_requires_meta(void) { return false; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx are kasan-rename-kasan_slab_free_mempool-to-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch kasan-move-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch kasan-document-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch kasan-add-return-value-for-kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_unpoison_object.patch kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_poison_pages.patch kasan-introduce-kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages.patch kasan-clean-up-__kasan_mempool_poison_object.patch kasan-save-free-stack-traces-for-slab-mempools.patch kasan-clean-up-and-rename-____kasan_kmalloc.patch kasan-introduce-poison_kmalloc_large_redzone.patch kasan-save-alloc-stack-traces-for-mempool.patch mempool-skip-slub_debug-poisoning-when-kasan-is-enabled.patch mempool-use-new-mempool-kasan-hooks.patch mempool-introduce-mempool_use_prealloc_only.patch kasan-add-mempool-tests.patch kasan-rename-pagealloc-tests.patch kasan-reorder-tests.patch kasan-rename-and-document-kasan_unpoison_object_data.patch skbuff-use-mempool-kasan-hooks.patch io_uring-use-mempool-kasan-hook.patch lib-stackdepot-add-printk_deferred_enter-exit-guards.patch kasan-handle-concurrent-kasan_record_aux_stack-calls.patch kasan-memset-free-track-in-qlink_free.patch lib-stackdepot-fix-comment-in-include-linux-stackdepoth.patch kasan-arm64-improve-comments-for-kasan_shadow_start-end.patch mm-kasan-use-kasan_tag_kernel-instead-of-0xff.patch kasan-improve-kasan_non_canonical_hook.patch kasan-clean-up-kasan_requires_meta.patch kasan-update-kasan_poison-documentation-comment.patch kasan-clean-up-is_kfence_address-checks.patch kasan-respect-config_kasan_vmalloc-for-kasan_flag_vmalloc.patch kasan-check-kasan_vmalloc_enabled-in-vmalloc-tests.patch kasan-export-kasan_poison-as-gpl.patch kasan-remove-slub-checks-for-page_alloc-fallbacks-in-tests.patch kasan-speed-up-match_all_mem_tag-test-for-sw_tags.patch