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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 19:08:28 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 19:08:28 +0200
commit14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61 (patch)
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parentMerge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi (diff)
parentmm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "173 patches. Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap, bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock, oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits) mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated() selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test mm: KSM: fix data type selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test selftests: vm: add KSM merge test mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease mm: introduce process_mrelease system call memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node() mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 83ec4a556c19..21dc03bc10a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -181,9 +181,16 @@ By default, KASAN prints a bug report only for the first invalid memory access.
With ``kasan_multi_shot``, KASAN prints a report on every invalid access. This
effectively disables ``panic_on_warn`` for KASAN reports.
+Alternatively, independent of ``panic_on_warn`` the ``kasan.fault=`` boot
+parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
+
+- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN
+ report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even
+ if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
+
Hardware tag-based KASAN mode (see the section about various modes below) is
intended for use in production as a security mitigation. Therefore, it supports
-boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features.
+additional boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling features:
- ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``).
@@ -199,10 +206,6 @@ boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features.
- ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack
traces collection (default: ``on``).
-- ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN
- report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even
- if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
-
Implementation details
----------------------