On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Yury Gribov <y.gri...@samsung.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This tiny patch adds support for KernelASan. KASan brings Asan error > detection capabilities to Linux kernel > (https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel). > > KASan works similar to normal userspace ASan but disables some options which > are not yet supported by kernel (notably inline instrumentation, > stack/global protection and UAR). We would prefer to hide all necessary > tweaks under a user-friendly flag (-fsanitize=kernel-address) instead of > forcing them directly in kernel's CFLAGS. > > Kernel patches are currently under review in LKML > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/9/990). > > Bootstrapped and regtested on x64. > > Ok to commit?
Thanks for doing this, Yury. The patch looks good to me FWIW, but please wait for Jakub or somebody else with stronger gcc-fu.
