[GIT PULL] KASan for Arm, v12

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 14:01:11 EDT 2020


Hi Linus,

On 7/20/20 2:40 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> please consider pulling in these changes to bring KASan
> support to Arm.
> 
> Certainly there will be bugs like with all new code, but I
> think we are in such good shape that in-tree development
> is the best way to go from now so that interested people
> can test this out.
> 
> I have tested it extensively on classic MMUs from ARMv4
> to ARMv7 and also on LPAE. But now I need the help of
> linux-next and the broader community to iron out any
> remaining corner cases.
> 
> I will of course respect a "no" but then some direction would
> be sweet. I could for example ask linux-next to include
> this branch separately from v5.9-rc1 or so to get some
> coverage.

I am still seeing crashes similar to the ones reported before with this
pull request, but maybe we can get it merged and address it later on
since this has been waiting forever to be merged.
-- 
Florian



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