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| author | Marco Elver <elver@google.com> | 2023-06-20 19:17:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-06-23 16:59:25 -0700 |
| commit | 8c293a6353d663879ec0e5db1db052319ca2100f (patch) | |
| tree | 95adbbea9e4e8a74932e4cac3efdd658daeba070 | |
| parent | 63773d2b593d86440c3b96fd300ed80d00cd06ef (diff) | |
kasan, doc: note kasan.fault=panic_on_write behaviour for async modes
Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since
all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZJHfL6vavKUZ3Yd8@elver.google.com
Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Taras Madan <tarasmadan@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 7f37a46af574..f4acf9c2e90f 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour: - ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if - ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. + ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of + Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on + asynchronously checked accesses (including reads). Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior: |