Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] kasan: Add report for async mode

From: Vincenzo Frascino
Date: Wed Jan 20 2021 - 12:23:53 EST



On 1/19/21 6:12 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:46 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Given there's no information available, I think it's simpler and
>> preferable to handle the logging separately, as is done for
>> kasan_report_invalid_free(). For example, we could do something roughly
>> like:
>>
>> void kasan_report_async(void)
>> {
>> unsigned long flags;
>>
>> start_report(&flags);
>> pr_err("BUG: KASAN: Tag mismatch detected asynchronously\n");
>
> "BUG: KASAN: invalid-access"
>

Ok, I will do in v5. It looks more uniform with what we have for the sync exception.

> It also might make sense to pass the ip, even though it's not exactly
> related to the access:
>

I would like to avoid to add a builtin for something that has not a real meaning
as you are correctly pointing out.

> pr_err("BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in %pS\n", (void *)ip);
>
> Up to you.
>
>> pr_err("KASAN: no fault information available\n");
>
> pr_err("Asynchronous mode enabled: no access details available\n");
>
>> dump_stack();
>> end_report(&flags);
>> }
>
> This approach with a dedicated function is better. Thanks, Mark!
>
> Please put it next to kasan_report_invalid_free().
>

Will do in v5.

Thanks!

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Regards,
Vincenzo