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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2017-03-31 15:12:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-03-31 17:13:30 -0700
commitb0845ce58379d11dcad4cdb6824a6410de260216 (patch)
treef74773a6b97f15de8734c1190f3395375089bf34 /Documentation
parent4742a35d9de745e867405b4311e1aac412f0ace1 (diff)
kasan: report only the first error by default
Disable kasan after the first report. There are several reasons for this: - Single bug quite often has multiple invalid memory accesses causing storm in the dmesg. - Write OOB access might corrupt metadata so the next report will print bogus alloc/free stacktraces. - Reports after the first easily could be not bugs by itself but just side effects of the first one. Given that multiple reports usually only do harm, it makes sense to disable kasan after the first one. If user wants to see all the reports, the boot-time parameter kasan_multi_shot must be used. [aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: wrote changelog and doc, added missing include] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323154416.30257-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt6
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2ba45caabada..facc20a3f962 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1725,6 +1725,12 @@
kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
Layout Randomization).
+ kasan_multi_shot
+ [KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
+ report on every invalid memory access. Without this
+ parameter KASAN will print report only for the first
+ invalid access.
+
keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
kernelcore= [KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC]