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authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>2016-03-25 14:21:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-25 16:37:42 -0700
commit7ed2f9e663854db313f177a511145630e398b402 (patch)
treef9dfba81a688864a4d78689470f624b0a482f545 /Documentation/kasan.txt
parente6e8379c876de16c6b78f83b15d5ac32c79cb440 (diff)
mm, kasan: SLAB support
Add KASAN hooks to SLAB allocator. This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index aa1e0c91e368..7dd95b35cd7c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is
required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables.
-Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires the
-kernel to be built with the SLUB allocator.
+Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture.
1. Usage
========
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ inline are compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary
the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a GCC
version 5.0 or later.
-Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator.
+KASAN works with both SLUB and SLAB memory allocators.
For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line