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

Andrey Ryabinin a.ryabinin at samsung.com
Fri Jul 17 06:13:07 PDT 2015


On 07/16/2015 07:03 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:30:11PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>>
>> I think this may work, if pud_none(*pud) will be replaced with !pud_val(*pud).
>> We can't use pud_none() because with 2-level page tables it's always false, so
>> we will never go down to pmd level where swapper_pg_dir populated.
> 
> The reason I used "do ... while" vs "while" or "for" is so that it gets
> down to the pmd level. The iteration over pgd is always done in the top
> loop via pgd_addr_end while the loops for missing levels (nopud, nopmd)
> are always a single iteration whether we check for pud_none or not. But
> when the level is present, we avoid looping when !pud_none().
> 

Right, dunno what I was thinking.
It seems to work. Lightly tested with every possible CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.



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