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

Vincenzo Frascino vincenzo.frascino at arm.com
Wed Jan 20 09:46:44 EST 2021


On 1/19/21 6:12 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> 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"
>

Ok, I will do in v5. It looks more uniform with what we have for the sync exception.

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

I would like to avoid to add a builtin for something that has not a real meaning
as you are correctly pointing out.

> 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().
> 

Will do in v5.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo



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