Re: [PATCH v9 3/4] kasan: Add report for async mode

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Fri Jan 29 2021 - 13:45:11 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:42 PM Vincenzo Frascino
<vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrey,
>
> On 1/29/21 6:16 PM, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> > What I meant is instead of:
> >
> > if (addr) trace_error_report_end(...);
> >
> > you might want to do:
> >
> > if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)) trace_error_report_end(...);
> >
> > because, could make sense to trace 0 in other cases?
> >
> > I could not find the implementation of trace_error_report_end() hence I am not
> > really sure on what it does.
>
> I figured it out how trace_error_report_end() works.

It's intended for collecting crashes for CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS.

> And in doing that I
> realized that the problem is sync vs async, hence I agree with what you are
> proposing:
>
> if (addr) trace_error_report_end(...);
>
> I will post v10 shortly. If we want to trace the async mode we can improve it in
> -rc1.

Sounds good, thanks!