Re: [PATCH v13 00/25] kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 10:18:19 EST


Hi Andrey,

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 01:24:18PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patchset adds a new software tag-based mode to KASAN [1].
> (Initially this mode was called KHWASAN, but it got renamed,
> see the naming rationale at the end of this section).
>
> The plan is to implement HWASan [2] for the kernel with the incentive,
> that it's going to have comparable to KASAN performance, but in the same
> time consume much less memory, trading that off for somewhat imprecise
> bug detection and being supported only for arm64.

For the arm64 parts:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

I assume that you plan to replace the current patches in -mm with this
series?

Cheers,

Will