From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:35:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112113541.GK29613@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdf9e3aec8f57ebb2795710195f8aaf79e3b45bd.1605046662.git.andreyknvl@google.com>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:20:15PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Hardware tag-based KASAN mode is intended to eventually be used in
> production as a security mitigation. Therefore there's a need for finer
> control over KASAN features and for an existence of a kill switch.
>
> This change adds a few boot parameters for hardware tag-based KASAN that
> allow to disable or otherwise control particular KASAN features.
>
> The features that can be controlled are:
>
> 1. Whether KASAN is enabled at all.
> 2. Whether KASAN collects and saves alloc/free stacks.
> 3. Whether KASAN panics on a detected bug or not.
>
> With this change a new boot parameter kasan.mode allows to choose one of
> three main modes:
>
> - kasan.mode=off - KASAN is disabled, no tag checks are performed
> - kasan.mode=prod - only essential production features are enabled
> - kasan.mode=full - all KASAN features are enabled
Alternative naming if we want to avoid "production" (in case someone
considers MTE to be expensive in a production system):
- kasan.mode=off
- kasan.mode=on
- kasan.mode=debug
Anyway, whatever you prefer is fine by me:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 22:20 [PATCH v2 00/20] kasan: boot parameters for hardware tag-based mode Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] kasan: simplify quarantine_put call site Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:08 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] kasan: rename get_alloc/free_info Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:09 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] kasan: introduce set_alloc_info Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:10 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] kasan, arm64: unpoison stack only with CONFIG_KASAN_STACK Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:13 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 9:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-11-12 19:38 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] kasan: allow VMAP_STACK for HW_TAGS mode Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:20 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 0:24 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-12 10:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] kasan: remove __kasan_unpoison_stack Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:42 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] kasan: inline kasan_reset_tag for tag-based modes Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:54 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] kasan: inline random_tag for HW_TAGS Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 17:02 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 0:21 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] kasan: inline kasan_poison_memory and check_invalid_free Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 17:50 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] kasan: inline and rename kasan_unpoison_memory Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 17:49 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 19:45 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-12 19:52 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 20:54 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-12 22:20 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 18:29 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 19:51 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-12 11:35 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-11-12 11:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 12:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-11-12 19:52 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-13 17:52 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-13 17:55 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] kasan, mm: check kasan_enabled in annotations Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 14:48 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 0:36 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] kasan: simplify kasan_poison_kfree Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 18:42 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] kasan, mm: rename kasan_poison_kfree Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 18:53 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 1:05 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] kasan: don't round_up too much Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 19:08 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] kasan: simplify assign_tag and set_tag calls Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 19:17 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] kasan: clarify comment in __kasan_kfree_large Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 19:18 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] kasan: clean up metadata allocation and usage Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 23:06 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 20:11 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] kasan, mm: allow cache merging with no metadata Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 15:13 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 23:00 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 23:27 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-10 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] kasan: update documentation Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-11 16:03 ` Marco Elver
2020-11-12 0:51 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-11-10 22:24 ` [PATCH v2 00/20] kasan: boot parameters for hardware tag-based mode Andrey Konovalov
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