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From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org, dvyukov@google.com, glider@google.com,
	andreyknvl@google.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] lib/test_kasan: Add bitops tests
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:50:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cc5e12d-1492-d9b7-3ea7-6381407439d7@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190613123028.179447-2-elver@google.com>



On 6/13/19 3:30 PM, Marco Elver wrote:
> This adds bitops tests to the test_kasan module. In a follow-up patch,
> support for bitops instrumentation will be added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>




> +static noinline void __init kasan_bitops(void)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Allocate 1 more byte, which causes kzalloc to round up to 16-bytes;
> +	 * this way we do not actually corrupt other memory, in case
> +	 * instrumentation is not working as intended.

This sound like working instrumentation somehow save us from corrupting memory. In fact it doesn't,
it only reports corruption.

> +	 */
> +	long *bits = kzalloc(sizeof(*bits) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!bits)
> +		return;
> +

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-13 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-13 12:30 [PATCH v4 0/3] Bitops instrumentation for KASAN Marco Elver
2019-06-13 12:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] lib/test_kasan: Add bitops tests Marco Elver
2019-06-13 12:50   ` Andrey Ryabinin [this message]
2019-06-13 13:00     ` Marco Elver
2019-06-13 12:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] x86: Use static_cpu_has in uaccess region to avoid instrumentation Marco Elver
2019-06-13 12:30 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] asm-generic, x86: Add bitops instrumentation for KASAN Marco Elver

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