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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kasan.txt3
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.kasan3
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c4
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 94c881579374..aa1e0c91e368 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a GCC
version 5.0 or later.
Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator.
-For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put
-at least 'slub_debug=U' in the boot cmdline.
+For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line
similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile:
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
index 39f24d6721e5..0fee5acd5aa0 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ config KASAN
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.
+ For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
choice
prompt "Instrumentation type"
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 423dbe77d145..75a5fa92ac2a 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -459,8 +459,10 @@ static void get_map(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, unsigned long *map)
/*
* Debug settings:
*/
-#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON
+#if defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON)
static int slub_debug = DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS;
+#elif defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
+static int slub_debug = SLAB_STORE_USER;
#else
static int slub_debug;
#endif