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| author | Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> | 2015-11-05 18:51:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800 |
| commit | 89d3c87e20d95e3238eac85e43de7b3cb1f39d8b (patch) | |
| tree | 9c680ae573229c1908986e853c3eca1c3132fe28 /lib | |
| parent | 10f702627e139e21465f4c9d44f63527bbca163c (diff) | |
mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
It's recommended to have slub's user tracking enabled with CONFIG_KASAN,
because:
a) User tracking disables slab merging which improves
detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
b) User tracking metadata acts as redzone which also improves
detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
c) User tracking provides additional information about object.
This information helps to understand bugs.
Currently it is not enabled by default. Besides recompiling the kernel
with KASAN and reinstalling it, user also have to change the boot cmdline,
which is not very handy.
Enable slub user tracking by default with KASAN=y, since there is no good
reason to not do this.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: little fixes, per David]
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kasan | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
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" |