[PATCH v9 43/44] kasan: add documentation for hardware tag-based mode

Alexander Potapenko glider at google.com
Wed Nov 11 11:57:07 EST 2020


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:12 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
>
> Add documentation for hardware tag-based KASAN mode and also add some
> clarifications for software tag-based mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
> ---
> Change-Id: Ib46cb444cfdee44054628940a82f5139e10d0258

> +
> +Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab memory.

I think the reader may confuse "slab memory" here with "memory
returned by SLAB" (as opposed to SLUB).
Maybe "heap memory" is less ambiguous?



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