Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst- Extension
.rst- Size
- 3035 bytes
- Lines
- 80
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
[<ffffffff830ae053>] start_kernel+0x83/0x49a
[<ffffffff830ad120>] ? early_idt_handler_array+0x120/0x120
[<ffffffff830ad386>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[<ffffffff830ad4f3>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x16b/0x17a
================================================================================
Usage
-----
To enable UBSAN, configure the kernel with::
CONFIG_UBSAN=y
To exclude files from being instrumented use::
UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := n
and to exclude all targets in one directory use::
UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
When disabled for all targets, specific files can be enabled using::
UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := y
Detection of unaligned accesses controlled through the separate option -
CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT. It's off by default on architectures that support
unaligned accesses (CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y). One could
still enable it in config, just note that it will produce a lot of UBSAN
reports.
References
----------
.. _1: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
.. _2: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
.. _3: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.