The patch titled Subject: kasan: depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug.patch 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 and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan: depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG KASAN depends on having access to some of the accounting that SLUB_DEBUG does; without it, there are immediate crashes [1]. So, the natural thing to do is to make KASAN select SLUB_DEBUG. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHmME9rtoPwxUSnktxzKso14iuVCWT7BE_-_8PAC=pGw1iJnQg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622154623.25388-1-Jason@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: f9e13c0a5a33 ("slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN lib/Kconfig.kasan~kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug lib/Kconfig.kasan --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan~kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug +++ a/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN config KASAN bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger" depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB) + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB select CONSTRUCTORS select STACKDEPOT help _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from Jason@xxxxxxxxx are kasan-depend-on-config_slub_debug.patch