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| author | Woody Lin | 2021-09-02 14:57:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2021-09-03 09:58:14 -0700 |
| commit | c9d1af2b780a7077d253047ccc81c5253cf0974a (patch) | |
| tree | ddf826464ec3228088a93c8140c7854c95d39ab3 /Documentation | |
| parent | f181234a5a21fd0a86b793330016b92c7b3ed8ee (diff) | |
mm/kasan: move kasan.fault to mm/kasan/report.c
Move the boot parameter 'kasan.fault' from hw_tags.c to report.c, so it
can support all KASAN modes - generic, and both tag-based.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713010536.3161822-1-woodylin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Woody Lin <woodylin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 83ec4a556c19..21dc03bc10a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -181,9 +181,16 @@ By default, KASAN prints a bug report only for the first invalid memory access. With ``kasan_multi_shot``, KASAN prints a report on every invalid access. This effectively disables ``panic_on_warn`` for KASAN reports. +Alternatively, independent of ``panic_on_warn`` the ``kasan.fault=`` boot +parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour: + +- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN + report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even + if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. + Hardware tag-based KASAN mode (see the section about various modes below) is intended for use in production as a security mitigation. Therefore, it supports -boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features. +additional boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling features: - ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``). @@ -199,10 +206,6 @@ boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features. - ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack traces collection (default: ``on``). -- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN - report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even - if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. - Implementation details ---------------------- |