From 1cc4cdb521f9689183474bc89eefc451ac44fa1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Konovalov Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 13:42:03 -0800 Subject: kasan: fix stack traces dependency for HW_TAGS Currently, whether the alloc/free stack traces collection is enabled by default for hardware tag-based KASAN depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL. The intention for this dependency was to only enable collection on slow debug kernels due to a significant perf and memory impact. As it turns out, CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not considered a debug option and is enabled on many productions kernels including Android and Ubuntu. As the result, this dependency is pointless and only complicates the code and documentation. Having stack traces collection disabled by default would make the hardware mode work differently to to the software ones, which is confusing. This change removes the dependency and enables stack traces collection by default. Looking into the future, this default might makes sense for production kernels, assuming we implement a fast stack trace collection approach. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6678d77ceffb71f1cff2cf61560e2ffe7bb6bfe9.1612808820.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Reviewed-by: Marco Elver Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Peter Collingbourne Cc: Evgenii Stepanov Cc: Branislav Rankov Cc: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/kasan/hw_tags.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c index e529428e7a11..d558799b25b3 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c +++ b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c @@ -134,12 +134,8 @@ void __init kasan_init_hw_tags(void) switch (kasan_arg_stacktrace) { case KASAN_ARG_STACKTRACE_DEFAULT: - /* - * Default to enabling stack trace collection for - * debug kernels. - */ - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL)) - static_branch_enable(&kasan_flag_stacktrace); + /* Default to enabling stack trace collection. */ + static_branch_enable(&kasan_flag_stacktrace); break; case KASAN_ARG_STACKTRACE_OFF: /* Do nothing, kasan_flag_stacktrace keeps its default value. */ -- cgit v1.2.3