Re: [PATCH] kasan: depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG

[Shakeel Butt]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:46 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KASAN depends on having access to some of the accounting that SLUB_DEBUG
> does; without it, there are immediate crashes [1]. So, the natural thing
> to do is to make KASAN select SLUB_DEBUG.
>
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHmME9rtoPwxUSnktxzKso14iuVCWT7BE_-_8PAC=pGw1iJnQg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Fixes: f9e13c0a5a33 ("slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()")
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 3d35d062970d..c253c1b46c6b 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
>  config KASAN
>         bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger"
>         depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
> +       select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
>         select CONSTRUCTORS
>         select STACKDEPOT
>         help
> --
> 2.17.1
>