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KASAN: prohibit KASAN+STRUCTLEAK combination 

Currently STRUCTLEAK inserts initialization out of live scope of variables
from KASAN point of view.  This leads to KASAN false positive reports.
Prohibit this combination for now.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180419172451.104700-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dmitry Vyukov 2018-05-11 16:01:35 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -464,6 +464,10 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
bool "Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses"
depends on GCC_PLUGINS
# Currently STRUCTLEAK inserts initialization out of live scope of
# variables from KASAN point of view. This leads to KASAN false
# positive reports. Prohibit this combination for now.
depends on !KASAN_EXTRA
help
This plugin zero-initializes any structures containing a
__user attribute. This can prevent some classes of information