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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2015-05-05 16:23:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-05-05 17:10:10 -0700 |
| commit | 01e76903f655a4d88c2e09d3182436c65f6e1213 (patch) | |
| tree | 664fb1d4d7bbd9ecb3d913fddcc04c985934852e /lib | |
| parent | 09789e5de18e4e442870b2d700831f5cb802eb05 (diff) | |
kasan: show gcc version requirements in Kconfig and Documentation
The documentation shows a need for gcc > 4.9.2, but it's really >=. The
Kconfig entries don't show require versions so add them. Correct a
latter/later typo too. Also mention that gcc 5 required to catch out of
bounds accesses to global and stack variables.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kasan | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 4fecaedc80a2..777eda7d1ab4 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ config KASAN help Enables kernel address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger, designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs. - This is strictly debugging feature. It consumes about 1/8 - of available memory and brings about ~x3 performance slowdown. + This is strictly a debugging feature and it requires a gcc version + of 4.9.2 or later. Detection of out of bounds accesses to stack or + global variables requires gcc 5.0 or later. + This feature consumes about 1/8 of available memory and brings about + ~x3 performance slowdown. For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE, and add slub_debug=U to boot cmdline. @@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ config KASAN_INLINE memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but make kernel's .text size much bigger. + This requires a gcc version of 5.0 or later. endchoice |