[PATCH v2 05/20] kasan: allow VMAP_STACK for HW_TAGS mode

Marco Elver elver at google.com
Wed Nov 11 11:20:51 EST 2020


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:20PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Even though hardware tag-based mode currently doesn't support checking
> vmalloc allocations, it doesn't use shadow memory and works with
> VMAP_STACK as is. Change VMAP_STACK definition accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I3552cbc12321dec82cd7372676e9372a2eb452ac
> ---

Shouldn't this be in the other series?

FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>

>  arch/Kconfig | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 56b6ccc0e32d..7e7d14fae568 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -914,16 +914,16 @@ config VMAP_STACK
>  	default y
>  	bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
>  	depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
> -	depends on !KASAN || KASAN_VMALLOC
> +	depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS || KASAN_VMALLOC
>  	help
>  	  Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
>  	  with guard pages.  This causes kernel stack overflows to be
>  	  caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
>  	  corruption.
>  
> -	  To use this with KASAN, the architecture must support backing
> -	  virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC must
> -	  be enabled.
> +	  To use this with software KASAN modes, the architecture must support
> +	  backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and KASAN_VMALLOC
> +	  must be enabled.
>  
>  config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX
>  	def_bool n
> -- 
> 2.29.2.222.g5d2a92d10f8-goog
> 



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