[PATCH 0/2] x86/KASAN updates for 4.3

Ingo Molnar mingo at kernel.org
Thu Aug 13 01:16:41 PDT 2015


* Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org> wrote:

> 
> * Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > These 2 patches taken from v5 'KASAN for arm64' series.
> > The only change is updated changelog in second patch.
> > 
> > I hope this is not too late to queue these for 4.3,
> > as this allow us to merge arm64/KASAN patches in v4.4
> > through arm64 tree.
> > 
> > Andrey Ryabinin (2):
> >   x86/kasan: define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET per architecture
> >   x86/kasan, mm: introduce generic kasan_populate_zero_shadow()
> > 
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h |   3 +
> >  arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c  | 123 ++--------------------------------
> >  include/linux/kasan.h        |  10 ++-
> >  mm/kasan/Makefile            |   2 +-
> >  mm/kasan/kasan_init.c        | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 mm/kasan/kasan_init.c
> 
> It's absolutely too late in the -rc cycle for v4.3!

Stupid me, I have read 'v4.2' ...

So yes, it's still good for v4.3, the development window is still open.

The rest still stands:

> I can create a stable topic tree for it, tip:mm/kasan or so, which arm64 could 
> pull and base its own ARM specific work on, if that's OK with everyone.

Thanks,

	Ingo



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