From f359074768bf406b64d62560e88ff9820b600220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Konovalov Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:00:24 -0700 Subject: kasan: docs: update boot parameters section Update the "Boot parameters" section in KASAN documentation: - Mention panic_on_warn. - Mention kasan_multi_shot and its interaction with panic_on_warn. - Clarify kasan.fault=panic interaction with panic_on_warn. - A readability clean-up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/01364952f15789948f0627d6733b5cdf5209f83a.1615559068.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Reviewed-by: Marco Elver Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 3020ee3d7a63..37af493c7f8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -174,10 +174,16 @@ call_rcu() and workqueue queuing. Boot parameters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +KASAN is affected by the generic ``panic_on_warn`` command line parameter. +When it is enabled, KASAN panics the kernel after printing a bug report. + +By default, KASAN prints a bug report only for the first invalid memory access. +With ``kasan_multi_shot``, KASAN prints a report on every invalid access. This +effectively disables ``panic_on_warn`` for KASAN reports. + Hardware tag-based KASAN mode (see the section about various modes below) is intended for use in production as a security mitigation. Therefore, it supports -boot parameters that allow to disable KASAN competely or otherwise control -particular KASAN features. +boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling its features. - ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``). @@ -194,8 +200,8 @@ particular KASAN features. traces collection (default: ``on``). - ``kasan.fault=report`` or ``=panic`` controls whether to only print a KASAN - report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). Note, that tag - checking gets disabled after the first reported bug. + report or also panic the kernel (default: ``report``). The panic happens even + if ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Implementation details ---------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3