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KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging
Date 2017-05-27 03:30 +0200
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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:33:33PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 0bf81e837cbf..c795207d8a3c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ config X86
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP		if X86_64 || X86_PAE
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
> -	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN			if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN			if X86_64 && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP && !X86_5LEVEL
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS		if MMU

Looks like KASAN will be a problem for boot-time paging mode switching.
It wants to know CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET at compile-time to pass to
gcc -fasan-shadow-offset=. But this value varies between paging modes...

I don't see how to solve it. Folks, any ideas?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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[PATCHv1, RFC 7/8] x86/mm: Hacks for boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-25 22:40 +0200
  KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-05-27 03:30 +0200
    Re: KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-05-29 12:10 +0200
      Re: KASAN vs. boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-05-29 13:30 +0200

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