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

[Will Deacon]

Hi Ingo,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

Yes please, works for me! If we're targetting 4.3, then please can you base
on 4.2-rc4, as that's what our current arm64 queue is using?

Cheers,

Will