[PATCH v2 12/37] kasan, arm64: only init shadow for software modes

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Sep 17 13:05:00 EDT 2020


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:15:54PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
> tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.
> 
> Hardware tag-based KASAN won't be using shadow memory. Only initialize
> it when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled.
> 
> No functional changes for software modes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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