Re: [PATCH v9 21/44] kasan: kasan_non_canonical_hook only for software modes

[Alexander Potapenko]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:11 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
> tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.
>
> kasan_non_canonical_hook() is only applicable to KASAN modes that use
> shadow memory, and won't be needed for hardware tag-based KASAN.
>
> No functional changes for software modes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Change-Id: Icc9f5ef100a2e86f3a4214a0c3131a68266181b2
> ---
>  mm/kasan/report.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
> index 5d5733831ad7..594bad2a3a5e 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,8 @@ bool kasan_report(unsigned long addr, size_t size, bool is_write,
>         return ret;
>  }
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE
> +#if (defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)) && \
> +       defined(CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE)
>  /*
>   * With CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE, accesses to bogus pointers (outside the high
>   * canonical half of the address space) cause out-of-bounds shadow memory reads

Perhaps this comment also needs to be updated.

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