Re: [PATCH v10 00/22] kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 04:11:35PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:
> >> > This patchset adds a new software tag-based mode to KASAN [1].
> >> > (Initially this mode was called KHWASAN, but it got renamed,
> >> >  see the naming rationale at the end of this section).
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
> >> > Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> >>
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> This patchset has now been reviewed-by KASAN maintainers. Could you
> >> take a look and consider taking this into the -mm tree?
> >
> > I would much prefer to take the arm64 parts (which still need to be reviewed
> > by Catalin afaict) via the arm64 tree, so please can you split those out
> > separately?
> 
> Which parts do you mean exactly, which patches? I don't think it makes
> sense to split this patchset, as one part won't function without the
> other.

I would like the patches that touch code under arch/arm64/ to be reviewed by
somebody from the arm64 community. Since the core parts have already been
reviewed, I was suggesting that you could split them out so that they are
not blocked by the architecture code. Is it not possible to preserve the
existing KASAN behaviour for arm64 with the core parts merged? I figured it
must be, since you're not touching any other architectures here and they
assumedly continue to function correctly.

However, if you'd rather keep everything together, please can we give it a
couple of weeks so we can at least get the architecture bits reviewed? Most
people are out at LPC next week (and I'm at another conference this week).

Will