1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2 # This config refers to the generic KASAN mode.
6 config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS
9 config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
12 config CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
13 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-address)
15 config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
16 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress)
18 config CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
19 def_bool !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 80300
22 bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
23 depends on (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
24 (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
25 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
26 depends on CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
28 Enables KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) - runtime memory debugger,
29 designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
30 See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
38 KASAN has two modes: generic KASAN (similar to userspace ASan,
39 x86_64/arm64/xtensa, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) and
40 software tag-based KASAN (a version based on software memory
41 tagging, arm64 only, similar to userspace HWASan, enabled with
42 CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS).
44 Both generic and tag-based KASAN are strictly debugging features.
48 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
49 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
50 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
54 Enables generic KASAN mode.
56 This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
57 version 8.3.0 or later. With Clang it requires version 7.0.0 or
58 later, but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables
59 is supported only since Clang 11.
61 This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
62 and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
63 The performance slowdown is ~x3.
65 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
67 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
68 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
71 bool "Software tag-based mode"
72 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
73 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
74 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
78 Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
80 This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
81 is only supported for arm64. This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0
84 This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
85 and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
86 This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer
87 casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each
90 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
92 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
93 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
98 prompt "Instrumentation type"
102 bool "Outline instrumentation"
104 Before every memory access compiler insert function call
105 __asan_load*/__asan_store*. These functions performs check
106 of shadow memory. This is slower than inline instrumentation,
107 however it doesn't bloat size of kernel's .text section so
111 bool "Inline instrumentation"
113 Compiler directly inserts code checking shadow memory before
114 memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads
115 it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but
116 make kernel's .text size much bigger.
120 config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
121 bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && !COMPILE_TEST
123 The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
124 causes excessive stack usage in a lot of functions, see
125 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
126 Disabling asan-stack makes it safe to run kernels build
127 with clang-8 with KASAN enabled, though it loses some of
129 This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang
130 to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow warnings,
131 but clang users can still enable it for builds without
132 CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST. On gcc it is assumed to always be safe
133 to use and enabled by default.
137 default 1 if KASAN_STACK_ENABLE || CC_IS_GCC
140 config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
141 bool "KASan: use 4-level paging"
144 Compiling the kernel with KASan disables automatic 3-level vs
145 4-level paging selection. 3-level paging is used by default (up
146 to 3TB of RAM with KASan enabled). This options allows to force
147 4-level paging instead.
149 config KASAN_SW_TAGS_IDENTIFY
150 bool "Enable memory corruption identification"
151 depends on KASAN_SW_TAGS
153 This option enables best-effort identification of bug type
154 (use-after-free or out-of-bounds) at the cost of increased
158 bool "Back mappings in vmalloc space with real shadow memory"
159 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
161 By default, the shadow region for vmalloc space is the read-only
162 zero page. This means that KASAN cannot detect errors involving
165 Enabling this option will hook in to vmap/vmalloc and back those
166 mappings with real shadow memory allocated on demand. This allows
167 for KASAN to detect more sorts of errors (and to support vmapped
168 stacks), but at the cost of higher memory usage.
171 tristate "Module for testing KASAN for bug detection"
174 This is a test module doing various nasty things like
175 out of bounds accesses, use after free. It is useful for testing
176 kernel debugging features like KASAN.