Re: [RFC 01/13] x86/paravirt: Turn KASAN off for parvirt.o

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 01/10/2016 09:59 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> + Andrey.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:15:19PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Otherwise terrible things happen if some of the callbacks end up
>> calling into KASAN in unexpected places.
>>
>> This has no obvious symptoms yet, but adding a memory reference to
>> native_flush_tlb_global without this blows up on KASAN kernels.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>> index b1b78ffe01d0..b7cd5bdf314b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
>> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ endif
>>  KASAN_SANITIZE_head$(BITS).o := n
>>  KASAN_SANITIZE_dumpstack.o := n
>>  KASAN_SANITIZE_dumpstack_$(BITS).o := n
>> +KASAN_SANITIZE_paravirt.o := n
>>  
>>  CFLAGS_irq.o := -I$(src)/../include/asm/trace
> 
> Shouldn't we take this one irrespectively of what happens to the rest in
> the patchset?
>

I don't think that this patch is the right way to solve the problem.
The follow-up patch "x86/kasan: clear kasan_zero_page after TLB flush" should fix Andy's problem.