From 7ed2f9e663854db313f177a511145630e398b402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Potapenko Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:21:59 -0700 Subject: mm, kasan: SLAB support Add KASAN hooks to SLAB allocator. This patch is based on the "mm: kasan: unified support for SLUB and SLAB allocators" patch originally prepared by Dmitry Chernenkov. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kasan.txt | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt index aa1e0c91e368..7dd95b35cd7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, therefore you will need a GCC version 4.9.2 or later. GCC 5.0 or later is required for detection of out-of-bounds accesses to stack or global variables. -Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires the -kernel to be built with the SLUB allocator. +Currently KASAN is supported only for x86_64 architecture. 1. Usage ======== @@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ inline are compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary 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. +KASAN works with both SLUB and SLAB memory allocators. For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line -- cgit v1.2.3