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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-03 19:08:28 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-03 19:08:28 +0200 |
commit | 14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61 (patch) | |
tree | 5cdcf5d2f06ca14be76efd33a4de0e3b28a70de0 /Documentation/dev-tools | |
parent | Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi (diff) | |
parent | mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() (diff) | |
download | linux-14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61.tar.xz linux-14726903c835101cd8d0a703b609305094350d61.zip |
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
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
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 ---------------------- |