CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA: KASAN: extra checks

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA has multiple definitions:

KASAN: extra checks found in lib/Kconfig.kasan

The configuration item CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA:

• prompt: KASAN: extra checks
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC && CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL && ! CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
• defined in lib/Kconfig.kasan
• found in Linux kernels: 5.0

Help text

This enables further checks in generic KASAN, for now it only includes the address-use-after-scope check that can lead to excessive kernel stack usage, frame size warnings and longer compile time. See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715

KAsan: extra checks found in lib/Kconfig.kasan

The configuration item CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA:

• prompt: KAsan: extra checks
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KASAN && CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL && ! CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
• defined in lib/Kconfig.kasan
• found in Linux kernels: 4.16–4.20

Help text

This enables further checks in the kernel address sanitizer, for now it only includes the address-use-after-scope check that can lead to excessive kernel stack usage, frame size warnings and longer compile time. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715 has more

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• (none)

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

Automatic links from Google (and ads)

Custom Search

Popular queries: