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authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>2020-10-13 16:47:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-13 18:38:26 -0700
commit527f6750d92beb9c787d8aba48477b1e834d64e5 (patch)
tree5ab346abd5fc13c0c70a10323ea06c49f2ba0067
parent3511af0a72efb2ba5df7f1b4c8c1bf3b1a19a9ea (diff)
kasan: remove mentions of unsupported Clang versions
Since the kernel now requires at least Clang 10.0.1, remove any mention of old Clang versions and simplify the documentation. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-7-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst4
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.kasan9
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 38fd5681fade..4abc84b1798c 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert validity checks before every
memory access, and therefore requires a compiler version that supports that.
Generic KASAN is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version
-8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or later, but detection of
+8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible, but detection of
out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is only supported since Clang 11.
-Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang and requires version 7.0.0 or later.
+Tag-based KASAN is only supported in Clang.
Currently generic KASAN is supported for the x86_64, arm64, xtensa, s390 and
riscv architectures, and tag-based KASAN is supported only for arm64.
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
index 047b53dbfd58..033a5bc67ac4 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
Enables generic KASAN mode.
This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
- version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or
- later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables
- is supported only since Clang 11.
+ version 8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible,
+ but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is
+ supported only since Clang 11.
This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS
Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
- is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0
- or later.
+ is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang.
This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.