diff options
| author | Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> | 2021-03-15 13:20:12 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2021-04-11 10:56:39 +0100 |
| commit | 2603f8a78dfb1d54f62dbacc490ea44aa6d80e04 (patch) | |
| tree | d8251bbee5ff9c3e60ae9bb32f10601ff4775387 /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | f3b7deef8dcaf84fd659108ae300626ea5420f87 (diff) | |
kasan: Add KASAN mode kernel parameter
Architectures supported by KASAN_HW_TAGS can provide a sync or async mode
of execution. On an MTE enabled arm64 hw for example this can be identified
with the synchronous or asynchronous tagging mode of execution.
In synchronous mode, an exception is triggered if a tag check fault occurs.
In asynchronous mode, if a tag check fault occurs, the TFSR_EL1 register is
updated asynchronously. The kernel checks the corresponding bits
periodically.
KASAN requires a specific kernel command line parameter to make use of this
hw features.
Add KASAN HW execution mode kernel command line parameter.
Note: This patch adds the kasan.mode kernel parameter and the
sync/async kernel command line options to enable the described features.
[ Add a new var instead of exposing kasan_arg_mode to be consistent with
flags for other command line arguments. ]
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210315132019.33202-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index ddf4239a5890..6f6ab3ed7b79 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ particular KASAN features. - ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``). +- ``kasan.mode=sync`` or ``=async`` controls whether KASAN is configured in + synchronous or asynchronous mode of execution (default: ``sync``). + Synchronous mode: a bad access is detected immediately when a tag + check fault occurs. + Asynchronous mode: a bad access detection is delayed. When a tag check + fault occurs, the information is stored in hardware (in the TFSR_EL1 + register for arm64). The kernel periodically checks the hardware and + only reports tag faults during these checks. + - ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack traces collection (default: ``on``). |