Re: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 00/21] Address sanitizer for kernel (kasan) - dynamic memory error detector.

[Vegard Nossum]

On 9 July 2014 23:44, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> You're also claiming that "KASAN is better than all of
>
> better as in finding more bugs, but surely not better as in
> "do so with less overhead"
>
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC".  So should we just disallow (or hide)
>> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on kernels where KASAN is available?
>
> I don't think DEBUG_PAGEALLOC/SLUB debug and kasan really conflict.
>
> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC/SLUB is "much lower overhead but less bugs found".
> KASAN is "slow but thorough" There are niches for both.
>
> But I could see KASAN eventually deprecating kmemcheck, which
> is just incredible slow.

FWIW, I definitely agree with this -- if KASAN can do everything that
kmemcheck can, it is no doubt the right way forward.


Vegard
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