[PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Don't let kasan instrument snapshot.c

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Thu Jun 2 05:20:32 PDT 2016


Kasan causes the compiler to instrument C code and is used at runtime to
detect accesses to memory that has been freed, or not yet allocated.

The code in snapshot.c saves and restores memory when hibernating. This will
access whole pages in the slab cache that have both free and allocated
areas, resulting in a large number of false positives from Kasan.

Disable instrumentation of this file.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

---
With this, I can hibernate/resume a kernel built with kasan on arm64.

 kernel/power/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/power/Makefile b/kernel/power/Makefile
index cb880a14cc39..eb4f717705ba 100644
--- a/kernel/power/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/power/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 ccflags-$(CONFIG_PM_DEBUG)	:= -DDEBUG
 
+KASAN_SANITIZE_snapshot.o	:= n
+
 obj-y				+= qos.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PM)		+= main.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_SLEEP)	+= console.o
-- 
2.8.0.rc3




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