lib/Kconfig.kasan
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File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
lib/Kconfig.kasan- Extension
.kasan- Size
- 7791 bytes
- Lines
- 232
- Domain
- Kernel Services
- Bucket
- lib
- Inferred role
- Kernel Services: lib
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Shared kernel service surface used by multiple subsystems, including helpers, cryptography, virtualization support, and async I/O infrastructure.
- Shared kernel service surface used by multiple subsystems, including helpers, cryptography, virtualization support, and async I/O infrastructure.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
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
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
# This config refers to the generic KASAN mode.
config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN
bool
config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS
bool
config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS
bool
config HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC
bool
config ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE
bool
help
Disables both inline and stack instrumentation. Selected by
architectures that do not support these instrumentation types.
config ARCH_NEEDS_DEFER_KASAN
bool
config ARCH_DEFER_KASAN
def_bool y
depends on KASAN && ARCH_NEEDS_DEFER_KASAN
help
Architectures should select this if they need to defer KASAN
initialization until shadow memory is properly set up. This
enables runtime control via static keys. Otherwise, KASAN uses
compile-time constants for better performance.
config CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC
def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-address)
config CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS
def_bool $(cc-option, -fsanitize=kernel-hwaddress)
# This option is only required for software KASAN modes.
# Old GCC versions do not have proper support for no_sanitize_address.
# See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89124 for details.
config CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS
def_bool !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 80300
menuconfig KASAN
bool "KASAN: dynamic memory safety error detector"
depends on (((HAVE_ARCH_KASAN && CC_HAS_KASAN_GENERIC) || \
(HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS && CC_HAS_KASAN_SW_TAGS)) && \
CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE_ADDRESS) || \
HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HW_TAGS
depends on SYSFS && !SLUB_TINY
select STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT
help
Enables KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) - a dynamic memory safety
error detector designed to find out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.
See Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst for details.
For better error reports, also enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
if KASAN
config CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX
def_bool (CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-address -mllvm -asan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)) || \
(CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-address --param asan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1))
# Don't define it if we don't need it: compilation of the test uses
# this variable to decide how the compiler should treat builtins.
depends on !KASAN_HW_TAGS
help
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Kernel Services / lib.
- 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.