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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 43/44] kasan: add documentation for hardware tag-based mode
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:57 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:12 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Add documentation for hardware tag-based KASAN mode and also add some
> > clarifications for software tag-based mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> > ---
> > Change-Id: Ib46cb444cfdee44054628940a82f5139e10d0258
>
> > +
> > +Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab memory.
>
> I think the reader may confuse "slab memory" here with "memory
> returned by SLAB" (as opposed to SLUB).
> Maybe "heap memory" is less ambiguous?

I think heap memory isn't widely used in the kernel context. But I'll
clarify this part in v10, thanks!

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