From 4784be284adaa516df4144fc919f9bde8200443a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:09:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kasan: update documentation for generic kasan Generic KASAN also supports to record the last two workqueue stacks and print them in KASAN report. So that need to update documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201203023037.30792-1-walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 2b68addaadcd7..f0b2d65e4b8a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -190,8 +190,9 @@ function calls GCC directly inserts the code to check the shadow memory. This option significantly enlarges kernel but it gives x1.1-x2 performance boost over outline instrumented kernel. -Generic KASAN prints up to 2 call_rcu() call stacks in reports, the last one -and the second to last. +Generic KASAN also reports the last 2 call stacks to creation of work that +potentially has access to an object. Call stacks for the following are shown: +call_rcu() and workqueue queuing. Software tag-based KASAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.30.2