[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 01/31] ARM: 9014/2: Replace string mem* functions for KASan

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 03:18:13PM +0100, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>Hello Sasha,
>
>On 30.12.20 14:02, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit d6d51a96c7d63b7450860a3037f2d62388286a52 ]
>>
>> Functions like memset()/memmove()/memcpy() do a lot of memory
>> accesses.
>>
>> If a bad pointer is passed to one of these functions it is important
>> to catch this. Compiler instrumentation cannot do this since these
>> functions are written in assembly.
>>
>> KASan replaces these memory functions with instrumented variants.
>
>Unless someone actually wants this, I suggest dropping it.
>
>It's a prerequisite patch for KASan support on ARM32, which is new in
>v5.11-rc1. Backporting it on its own doesn't add any value IMO.

I'll drop it, thanks.

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Thanks,
Sasha