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)
19 bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
20 depends on (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
21 (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
22 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
24 Enables KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) - runtime memory debugger,
25 designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
26 See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
33 KASAN has two modes: generic KASAN (similar to userspace ASan,
34 x86_64/arm64/xtensa, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) and
35 software tag-based KASAN (a version based on software memory
36 tagging, arm64 only, similar to userspace HWASan, enabled with
37 CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS).
38 Both generic and tag-based KASAN are strictly debugging features.
42 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
43 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
44 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
48 Enables generic KASAN mode.
49 Supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 4.9.2
50 or later for basic support and version 5.0 or later for detection of
51 out-of-bounds accesses for stack and global variables and for inline
52 instrumentation mode (CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE). With Clang it requires
53 version 3.7.0 or later and it doesn't support detection of
54 out-of-bounds accesses for global variables yet.
55 This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
56 and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
57 The performance slowdown is ~x3.
58 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
59 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
60 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
63 bool "Software tag-based mode"
64 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
65 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
66 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
70 Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
71 This mode requires Top Byte Ignore support by the CPU and therefore
72 is only supported for arm64.
73 This mode requires Clang version 7.0.0 or later.
74 This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
75 and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
76 This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer
77 casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each
79 For better error detection enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
80 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
81 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
86 prompt "Instrumentation type"
91 bool "Outline instrumentation"
93 Before every memory access compiler insert function call
94 __asan_load*/__asan_store*. These functions performs check
95 of shadow memory. This is slower than inline instrumentation,
96 however it doesn't bloat size of kernel's .text section so
100 bool "Inline instrumentation"
102 Compiler directly inserts code checking shadow memory before
103 memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads
104 it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but
105 make kernel's .text size much bigger.
106 For CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC this requires GCC 5.0 or later.
110 config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
111 bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && !COMPILE_TEST
114 The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
115 causes excessive stack usage in a lot of functions, see
116 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
117 Disabling asan-stack makes it safe to run kernels build
118 with clang-8 with KASAN enabled, though it loses some of
120 This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang
121 to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow warnings,
122 but clang users can still enable it for builds without
123 CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST. On gcc it is assumed to always be safe
124 to use and enabled by default.
128 default 1 if KASAN_STACK_ENABLE || CC_IS_GCC
131 config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
132 bool "KASan: use 4-level paging"
133 depends on KASAN && S390
135 Compiling the kernel with KASan disables automatic 3-level vs
136 4-level paging selection. 3-level paging is used by default (up
137 to 3TB of RAM with KASan enabled). This options allows to force
138 4-level paging instead.
140 config KASAN_SW_TAGS_IDENTIFY
141 bool "Enable memory corruption identification"
142 depends on KASAN_SW_TAGS
144 This option enables best-effort identification of bug type
145 (use-after-free or out-of-bounds) at the cost of increased
149 bool "Back mappings in vmalloc space with real shadow memory"
150 depends on KASAN && HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
152 By default, the shadow region for vmalloc space is the read-only
153 zero page. This means that KASAN cannot detect errors involving
156 Enabling this option will hook in to vmap/vmalloc and back those
157 mappings with real shadow memory allocated on demand. This allows
158 for KASAN to detect more sorts of errors (and to support vmapped
159 stacks), but at the cost of higher memory usage.
162 tristate "Module for testing KASAN for bug detection"
163 depends on m && KASAN
165 This is a test module doing various nasty things like
166 out of bounds accesses, use after free. It is useful for testing
167 kernel debugging features like KASAN.