[PATCH v4 6/6] kasan: update documentation for generic kasan
Walter Wu
walter-zh.wu at mediatek.com
Thu Sep 24 00:06:49 EDT 2020
Generic KASAN also supports to record the last two timer and workqueue
stacks and print them in KASAN report. So that need to update
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu at mediatek.com>
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
---
v3:
- Thanks for Marco suggestion
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 38fd5681fade..698ccb65e634 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -190,8 +190,9 @@ function calls GCC directly inserts the code to check the shadow memory.
This option significantly enlarges kernel but it gives x1.1-x2 performance
boost over outline instrumented kernel.
-Generic KASAN prints up to 2 call_rcu() call stacks in reports, the last one
-and the second to last.
+Generic KASAN also reports the last 2 call stacks to creation of work that
+potentially has access to an object. Call stacks for the following are shown:
+call_rcu(), timer and workqueue queuing.
Software tag-based KASAN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.18.0
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