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_HW_TAGS
12 config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
15 config ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE
18 An architecture might not support inline instrumentation.
19 When this option is selected, inline and stack instrumentation are
22 config CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
23 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-address)
25 config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
26 def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress)
28 # This option is only required for software KASAN modes.
29 # Old GCC versions don't have proper support for no_sanitize_address.
30 # See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89124 for details.
31 config CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
32 def_bool !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 80300
35 bool "KASAN: runtime memory debugger"
36 depends on (((HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
37 (HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)) && \
38 CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS) || \
39 HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS
40 depends on (SLUB && SYSFS) || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
43 Enables KASAN (KernelAddressSANitizer) - runtime memory debugger,
44 designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs.
45 See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
53 KASAN has three modes:
54 1. generic KASAN (similar to userspace ASan,
55 x86_64/arm64/xtensa, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC),
56 2. software tag-based KASAN (arm64 only, based on software
57 memory tagging (similar to userspace HWASan), enabled with
58 CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS), and
59 3. hardware tag-based KASAN (arm64 only, based on hardware
60 memory tagging, enabled with CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS).
62 All KASAN modes are strictly debugging features.
64 For better error reports enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
68 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
69 depends on CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
70 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
73 Enables generic KASAN mode.
75 This mode is supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires
76 version 8.3.0 or later. Any supported Clang version is compatible,
77 but detection of out-of-bounds accesses for global variables is
78 supported only since Clang 11.
80 This mode consumes about 1/8th of available memory at kernel start
81 and introduces an overhead of ~x1.5 for the rest of the allocations.
82 The performance slowdown is ~x3.
84 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
85 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
88 bool "Software tag-based mode"
89 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
90 depends on CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
91 select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
94 Enables software tag-based KASAN mode.
96 This mode require software memory tagging support in the form of
97 HWASan-like compiler instrumentation.
99 Currently this mode is only implemented for arm64 CPUs and relies on
100 Top Byte Ignore. This mode requires Clang.
102 This mode consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start
103 and introduces an overhead of ~20% for the rest of the allocations.
104 This mode may potentially introduce problems relating to pointer
105 casting and comparison, as it embeds tags into the top byte of each
108 Currently CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
109 (the resulting kernel does not boot).
112 bool "Hardware tag-based mode"
113 depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS
116 Enables hardware tag-based KASAN mode.
118 This mode requires hardware memory tagging support, and can be used
119 by any architecture that provides it.
121 Currently this mode is only implemented for arm64 CPUs starting from
122 ARMv8.5 and relies on Memory Tagging Extension and Top Byte Ignore.
127 prompt "Instrumentation type"
128 depends on KASAN_GENERIC || KASAN_SW_TAGS
129 default KASAN_OUTLINE
132 bool "Outline instrumentation"
134 Before every memory access compiler insert function call
135 __asan_load*/__asan_store*. These functions performs check
136 of shadow memory. This is slower than inline instrumentation,
137 however it doesn't bloat size of kernel's .text section so
141 bool "Inline instrumentation"
142 depends on !ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE
144 Compiler directly inserts code checking shadow memory before
145 memory accesses. This is faster than outline (in some workloads
146 it gives about x2 boost over outline instrumentation), but
147 make kernel's .text size much bigger.
152 bool "Enable stack instrumentation (unsafe)" if CC_IS_CLANG && !COMPILE_TEST
153 depends on KASAN_GENERIC || KASAN_SW_TAGS
154 depends on !ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE
155 default y if CC_IS_GCC
157 The LLVM stack address sanitizer has a know problem that
158 causes excessive stack usage in a lot of functions, see
159 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38809
160 Disabling asan-stack makes it safe to run kernels build
161 with clang-8 with KASAN enabled, though it loses some of
163 This feature is always disabled when compile-testing with clang
164 to avoid cluttering the output in stack overflow warnings,
165 but clang users can still enable it for builds without
166 CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST. On gcc it is assumed to always be safe
167 to use and enabled by default.
168 If the architecture disables inline instrumentation, stack
169 instrumentation is also disabled as it adds inline-style
170 instrumentation that is run unconditionally.
172 config KASAN_TAGS_IDENTIFY
173 bool "Enable memory corruption identification"
174 depends on KASAN_SW_TAGS || KASAN_HW_TAGS
176 This option enables best-effort identification of bug type
177 (use-after-free or out-of-bounds) at the cost of increased
181 bool "Back mappings in vmalloc space with real shadow memory"
182 depends on KASAN_GENERIC && HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
184 By default, the shadow region for vmalloc space is the read-only
185 zero page. This means that KASAN cannot detect errors involving
188 Enabling this option will hook in to vmap/vmalloc and back those
189 mappings with real shadow memory allocated on demand. This allows
190 for KASAN to detect more sorts of errors (and to support vmapped
191 stacks), but at the cost of higher memory usage.
193 config KASAN_KUNIT_TEST
194 tristate "KUnit-compatible tests of KASAN bug detection capabilities" if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
195 depends on KASAN && KUNIT
196 default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
198 This is a KUnit test suite doing various nasty things like
199 out of bounds and use after free accesses. It is useful for testing
200 kernel debugging features like KASAN.
202 For more information on KUnit and unit tests in general, please refer
203 to the KUnit documentation in Documentation/dev-tools/kunit.
205 config KASAN_MODULE_TEST
206 tristate "KUnit-incompatible tests of KASAN bug detection capabilities"
207 depends on m && KASAN && !KASAN_HW_TAGS
209 This is a part of the KASAN test suite that is incompatible with
210 KUnit. Currently includes tests that do bad copy_from/to_user