From 527f6750d92beb9c787d8aba48477b1e834d64e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marco Elver Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:47:51 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Fangrui Song Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Sedat Dilek Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Will Deacon Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-7-ndesaulniers@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.kasan') 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. -- cgit