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 CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
10 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-address)
12 config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
13 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress)
16 bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
17 depends on (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
18 (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
19 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
21 Enables KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) - runtime memory debugger,
22 designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
23 See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
30 KASAN has two modes: generic KASAN (similar to userspace ASan,
31 x86_64/arm64/xtensa, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) and
32 software tag-based KASAN (a version based on software memory
33 tagging, arm64 only, similar to userspace HWASan, enabled with
34 CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS).
35 Both generic and tag-based KASAN are strictly debugging features.
39 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
40 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
41 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
45 Enables generic KASAN mode.
46 Supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 4.9.2
47 or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of
48 out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline
49 instrumentation mode (CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE). With Clang it requires
50 version 3.7.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of
51 out-of-bounds accesses for global variables yet.
52 This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
53 and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
54 The performance slowdown is ~x3.
55 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
56 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
57 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
60 bool "Software tag-based mode"
61 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
62 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
63 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
67 Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
68 This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
69 is only supported for arm64.
70 This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 or later.
71 This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
72 and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
73 This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer
74 casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each
76 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
77 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
78 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
83 prompt "Instrumentation type"
88 bool "Outline instrumentation"
90 Before every memory access compiler insert function call
91 __asan_load*/__asan_store*. These functions performs check
92 of shadow memory. This is slower than inline instrumentation,
93 however it doesn't bloat size of kernel's .text section so
97 bool "Inline instrumentation"
99 Compiler directly inserts code checking shadow memory before
100 memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads
101 it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but
102 make kernel's .text size much bigger.
103 For CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC this requires GCC 5.0 or later.
107 config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
108 bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && !COMPILE_TEST
109 default !(CLANG_VERSION < 90000)
112 The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
113 causes excessive stack usage in a lot of functions, see
114 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
115 Disabling asan-stack makes it safe to run kernels build
116 with clang-8 with KASAN enabled, though it loses some of
118 This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang-8
119 or earlier to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow
120 warnings, but clang-8 users can still enable it for builds without
121 CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST. On gcc and later clang versions it is
122 assumed to always be safe to use and enabled by default.
126 default 1 if KASAN_STACK_ENABLE || CC_IS_GCC
129 config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
130 bool "KASan: use 4-level paging"
131 depends on KASAN && S390
133 Compiling the kernel with KASan disables automatic 3-level vs
134 4-level paging selection. 3-level paging is used by default (up
135 to 3TB of RAM with KASan enabled). This options allows to force
136 4-level paging instead.
139 tristate "Module for testing KASAN for bug detection"
140 depends on m && KASAN
142 This is a test module doing various nasty things like
143 out of bounds accesses, use after free. It is useful for testing
144 kernel debugging features like KASAN.