Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] KASan for arm

Linus Walleij
2019-07-03T00:51:38Z

Hi Florian,

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 12:11 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:

> Abbott submitted a v5 about a year ago here:
>
> and the series was not picked up since then, so I rebased it against
> v5.2-rc4 and re-tested it on a Brahma-B53 (ARMv8 running AArch32 mode)
> and Brahma-B15, both LPAE and test-kasan is consistent with the ARM64
> counter part.
>
> We were in a fairly good shape last time with a few different people
> having tested it, so I am hoping we can get that included for 5.4 if
> everything goes well.

Thanks for picking this up. I was trying out KASan in the past,
got sidetracked and honestly lost interest a bit because it was
boring. But I do realize that it is really neat, so I will try to help
out with some review and test on a bunch of hardware I have.

At one point I even had this running on the ARMv4 SA1100
(no joke!) and if I recall correctly, I got stuck because of things
that might very well have been related to using a very fragile
Arm testchip that later broke down completely in the l2cache
when we added the spectre/meltdown fixes.

I start reviewing and testing.

Yours,
Linus Walleij