Re: [PATCH v13 00/25] kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64
From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 11:01:25 EST
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:18 PM Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
Hi Will,
Yes, that was the intention of sending v13. Should have I sent a
separate patch with v12->v13 fixes instead? I don't know what's the
usual way to make changes to the patchset once it's in the mm tree.
Thanks!