[PATCH v2 5/5] arm64: add KASan support

[Andrey Ryabinin]

2015-08-24 19:16 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>:
> On 24/08/15 17:00, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> 2015-08-24 18:44 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>:
>>>
>>> Another option would be having "sparse" shadow memory based on page
>>> extension. I did play with that some time ago based on ideas from
>>> original v1 KASan support for x86/arm - it is how 614be38 "irqchip:
>>> gic-v3: Fix out of bounds access to cpu_logical_map" was caught.
>>> It doesn't require any VA reservations, only some contiguous memory for
>>> the page_ext itself, which serves as indirection level for the 0-order
>>> shadow pages.
>>
>> We won't be able to use inline instrumentation (I could live with that),
>> and most importantly, we won't be able to use stack instrumentation.
>> GCC needs to know shadow address for inline and/or stack instrumentation
>> to generate correct code.
>
> It's definitely a trade-off ;)
>
> Just for my understanding does that stack instrumentation is controlled
> via -asan-stack?
>

Yup.