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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
index 34b84bcbd3d9..047b53dbfd58 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
config CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
def_bool !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 80300
-config KASAN
+menuconfig KASAN
bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
depends on (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
(HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ config KASAN
designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
+if KASAN
+
choice
prompt "KASAN mode"
- depends on KASAN
default KASAN_GENERIC
help
KASAN has two modes: generic KASAN (similar to userspace ASan,
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ choice
software tag-based KASAN (a version based on software memory
tagging, arm64 only, similar to userspace HWASan, enabled with
CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS).
+
Both generic and tag-based KASAN are strictly debugging features.
config KASAN_GENERIC
@@ -50,16 +52,18 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC
select STACKDEPOT
help
Enables generic KASAN mode.
- Supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 4.9.2
- or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of
- out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline
- instrumentation mode (CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE). With Clang it requires
- version 3.7.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of
- out-of-bounds accesses for global variables yet.
+
+ This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
+ version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or
+ later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables
+ is supported only since Clang 11.
+
This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
The performance slowdown is ~x3.
+
For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
+
Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
(the resulting kernel does not boot).
@@ -72,15 +76,19 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS
select STACKDEPOT
help
Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
+
This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
- is only supported for arm64.
- This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 or later.
+ is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0
+ or later.
+
This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer
casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each
pointer.
+
For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
+
Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
(the resulting kernel does not boot).
@@ -88,7 +96,6 @@ endchoice
choice
prompt "Instrumentation type"
- depends on KASAN
default KASAN_OUTLINE
config KASAN_OUTLINE
@@ -107,13 +114,11 @@ config KASAN_INLINE
memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads
it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but
make kernel's .text size much bigger.
- For CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC this requires GCC 5.0 or later.
endchoice
config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && !COMPILE_TEST
- depends on KASAN
help
The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
causes excessive stack usage in a lot of functions, see
@@ -134,7 +139,7 @@ config KASAN_STACK
config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
bool "KASan: use 4-level paging"
- depends on KASAN && S390
+ depends on S390
help
Compiling the kernel with KASan disables automatic 3-level vs
4-level paging selection. 3-level paging is used by default (up
@@ -151,7 +156,7 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS_IDENTIFY
config KASAN_VMALLOC
bool "Back mappings in vmalloc space with real shadow memory"
- depends on KASAN && HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
+ depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
help
By default, the shadow region for vmalloc space is the read-only
zero page. This means that KASAN cannot detect errors involving
@@ -164,8 +169,10 @@ config KASAN_VMALLOC
config TEST_KASAN
tristate "Module for testing KASAN for bug detection"
- depends on m && KASAN
+ depends on m
help
This is a test module doing various nasty things like
out of bounds accesses, use after free. It is useful for testing
kernel debugging features like KASAN.
+
+endif # KASAN