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

[Andrey Ryabinin]

2015-08-22 13:09 GMT+03:00 Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>:
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> * Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:24:28PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> > > 2015-08-13 12:01 GMT+03:00 Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>:
>> > > > 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?
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Does this mean that we are targeting arm64 part for 4.3 too?
>> >
>> > It depends on how well it merges with our current queue and whether it
>> > holds up to regression testing. The patches have been reviewed, so I'm
>> > comfortable with the content, but we're not at a stage where we can debug
>> > and fix any failures that might crop up from the merge.
>>
>> Scratch that :(
>>
>> I tried this out under EFI and it dies horribly in the stub code because
>> we're missing at least one KASAN_SANITIZE_ Makefile entry.
>>
>> So I think this needs longer to stew before hitting mainline. By all means
>> get the x86 dependencies in for 4.3, but the arm64 port can probably use
>> another cycle to iron out the bugs.
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> Is there any known problem with the two patches in this series, or can I apply
> them?
>

None, as far as I know.

BTW, the second patch was  Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/11/546). I just forgot to add this into changelog.



> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo