Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/KASAN updates for 4.3

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 13 2015 - 04:16:55 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> * Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > These 2 patches taken from v5 'KASAN for arm64' series.
> > The only change is updated changelog in second patch.
> >
> > I hope this is not too late to queue these for 4.3,
> > as this allow us to merge arm64/KASAN patches in v4.4
> > through arm64 tree.
> >
> > Andrey Ryabinin (2):
> > x86/kasan: define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET per architecture
> > x86/kasan, mm: introduce generic kasan_populate_zero_shadow()
> >
> > arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h | 3 +
> > arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 123 ++--------------------------------
> > include/linux/kasan.h | 10 ++-
> > mm/kasan/Makefile | 2 +-
> > mm/kasan/kasan_init.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 mm/kasan/kasan_init.c
>
> It's absolutely too late in the -rc cycle for v4.3!

Stupid me, I have read 'v4.2' ...

So yes, it's still good for v4.3, the development window is still open.

The rest still stands:

> I can create a stable topic tree for it, tip:mm/kasan or so, which arm64 could
> pull and base its own ARM specific work on, if that's OK with everyone.

Thanks,

Ingo
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