Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64/kasan: don't allocate extra shadow memory

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:45:32PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:23:37PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >> We used to read several bytes of the shadow memory in advance.
> >> Therefore additional shadow memory mapped to prevent crash if
> >> speculative load would happen near the end of the mapped shadow memory.
> >>
> >> Now we don't have such speculative loads, so we no longer need to map
> >> additional shadow memory.
> >
> > I see that patch 1 fixed up the Linux helpers for outline
> > instrumentation.
> >
> > Just to check, is it also true that the inline instrumentation never
> > performs unaligned accesses to the shadow memory?
> 
> Inline instrumentation generally accesses only a single byte.

Sorry to be a little pedantic, but does that mean we'll never access the
additional shadow, or does that mean it's very unlikely that we will?

I'm guessing/hoping it's the former!

Thanks,
Mark.