Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [v6 11/15] arm64/kasan: explicitly zero kasan shadow memory | From | Pasha Tatashin <> | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:30:58 -0400 |
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On 2017-08-08 09:15, David Laight wrote: > From: Pasha Tatashin >> Sent: 08 August 2017 12:49 >> Thank you for looking at this change. What you described was in my >> previous iterations of this project. >> >> See for example here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/5/369 >> >> I was asked to remove that flag, and only zero memory in place when >> needed. Overall the current approach is better everywhere else in the >> kernel, but it adds a little extra code to kasan initialization. > > Perhaps you could #define the function prototype(s?) so that the flags > are not passed unless it is a kasan build? >
Hi David,
Thank you for suggestion. I think a kasan specific vmemmap (what I described in the previous e-mail) would be a better solution over having different prototypes with different builds. It would be cleaner to have all kasan specific code in one place.
Pasha
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