[PATCH v4 3/5] kasan: Add report for async mode

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl at google.com
Tue Jan 19 13:12:11 EST 2021


On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:46 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Given there's no information available, I think it's simpler and
> preferable to handle the logging separately, as is done for
> kasan_report_invalid_free(). For example, we could do something roughly
> like:
>
> void kasan_report_async(void)
> {
>         unsigned long flags;
>
>         start_report(&flags);
>         pr_err("BUG: KASAN: Tag mismatch detected asynchronously\n");

"BUG: KASAN: invalid-access"

It also might make sense to pass the ip, even though it's not exactly
related to the access:

pr_err("BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in %pS\n", (void *)ip);

Up to you.

>         pr_err("KASAN: no fault information available\n");

pr_err("Asynchronous mode enabled: no access details available\n");

>         dump_stack();
>         end_report(&flags);
> }

This approach with a dedicated function is better. Thanks, Mark!

Please put it next to kasan_report_invalid_free().



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