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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-08-07 13:11:27 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-08-07 13:11:27 +0000
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parentAdding debian version 6.8.12-1. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 6.9.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst41
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst28
5 files changed, 59 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index c3389c6f38..1279689958 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Available options:
- --fix
- This is an EXPERIMENTAL feature. If correctable errors exists, a file
+ This is an EXPERIMENTAL feature. If correctable errors exist, a file
<inputfile>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes is created which has the
automatically fixable errors corrected.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Available options:
- --ignore-perl-version
- Override checking of perl version. Runtime errors maybe encountered after
+ Override checking of perl version. Runtime errors may be encountered after
enabling this flag if the perl version does not meet the minimum specified.
- --codespell
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 858c77fe7d..d7de44f533 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Error reports
A typical KASAN report looks like this::
==================================================================
- BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmalloc_oob_right+0xa8/0xbc [test_kasan]
+ BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmalloc_oob_right+0xa8/0xbc [kasan_test]
Write of size 1 at addr ffff8801f44ec37b by task insmod/2760
CPU: 1 PID: 2760 Comm: insmod Not tainted 4.19.0-rc3+ #698
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ A typical KASAN report looks like this::
print_address_description+0x73/0x280
kasan_report+0x144/0x187
__asan_report_store1_noabort+0x17/0x20
- kmalloc_oob_right+0xa8/0xbc [test_kasan]
- kmalloc_tests_init+0x16/0x700 [test_kasan]
+ kmalloc_oob_right+0xa8/0xbc [kasan_test]
+ kmalloc_tests_init+0x16/0x700 [kasan_test]
do_one_initcall+0xa5/0x3ae
do_init_module+0x1b6/0x547
load_module+0x75df/0x8070
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ A typical KASAN report looks like this::
save_stack+0x43/0xd0
kasan_kmalloc+0xa7/0xd0
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe1/0x1b0
- kmalloc_oob_right+0x56/0xbc [test_kasan]
- kmalloc_tests_init+0x16/0x700 [test_kasan]
+ kmalloc_oob_right+0x56/0xbc [kasan_test]
+ kmalloc_tests_init+0x16/0x700 [kasan_test]
do_one_initcall+0xa5/0x3ae
do_init_module+0x1b6/0x547
load_module+0x75df/0x8070
@@ -277,6 +277,27 @@ traces point to places in code that interacted with the object but that are not
directly present in the bad access stack trace. Currently, this includes
call_rcu() and workqueue queuing.
+CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Enabling CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO allows KASAN to record and report more
+information. The extra information currently supported is the CPU number and
+timestamp at allocation and free. More information can help find the cause of
+the bug and correlate the error with other system events, at the cost of using
+extra memory to record more information (more cost details in the help text of
+CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO).
+
+Here is the report with CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO enabled (only the
+different parts are shown)::
+
+ ==================================================================
+ ...
+ Allocated by task 134 on cpu 5 at 229.133855s:
+ ...
+ Freed by task 136 on cpu 3 at 230.199335s:
+ ...
+ ==================================================================
+
Implementation details
----------------------
@@ -510,15 +531,15 @@ When a test passes::
When a test fails due to a failed ``kmalloc``::
- # kmalloc_large_oob_right: ASSERTION FAILED at lib/test_kasan.c:163
+ # kmalloc_large_oob_right: ASSERTION FAILED at mm/kasan/kasan_test.c:245
Expected ptr is not null, but is
- not ok 4 - kmalloc_large_oob_right
+ not ok 5 - kmalloc_large_oob_right
When a test fails due to a missing KASAN report::
- # kmalloc_double_kzfree: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/test_kasan.c:974
+ # kmalloc_double_kzfree: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kasan/kasan_test.c:709
KASAN failure expected in "kfree_sensitive(ptr)", but none occurred
- not ok 44 - kmalloc_double_kzfree
+ not ok 28 - kmalloc_double_kzfree
At the end the cumulative status of all KASAN tests is printed. On success::
@@ -534,7 +555,7 @@ There are a few ways to run KUnit-compatible KASAN tests.
1. Loadable module
With ``CONFIG_KUNIT`` enabled, KASAN-KUnit tests can be built as a loadable
- module and run by loading ``test_kasan.ko`` with ``insmod`` or ``modprobe``.
+ module and run by loading ``kasan_test.ko`` with ``insmod`` or ``modprobe``.
2. Built-In
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
index ab376b316c..ff10dc6eef 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
TEST_PROGS, TEST_GEN_PROGS mean it is the executable tested by
default.
+ TEST_GEN_MODS_DIR should be used by tests that require modules to be built
+ before the test starts. The variable will contain the name of the directory
+ containing the modules.
+
TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS should be used by tests that require custom build
rules and prevent common build rule use.
@@ -255,9 +259,21 @@ Contributing new tests (details)
TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED, TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED mean it is the
executable which is not tested by default.
+
TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by
test.
+ TEST_INCLUDES is similar to TEST_FILES, it lists files which should be
+ included when exporting or installing the tests, with the following
+ differences:
+
+ * symlinks to files in other directories are preserved
+ * the part of paths below tools/testing/selftests/ is preserved when
+ copying the files to the output directory
+
+ TEST_INCLUDES is meant to list dependencies located in other directories of
+ the selftests hierarchy.
+
* First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the
system headers. Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers
installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
index 0aaf6ea536..1619e5e5cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/testing-overview.rst
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ Some of these tools are listed below:
KASAN and can be used in production. See Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
* lockdep is a locking correctness validator. See
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst
+* Runtime Verification (RV) supports checking specific behaviours for a given
+ subsystem. See Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst
* There are several other pieces of debug instrumentation in the kernel, many
of which can be found in lib/Kconfig.debug
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst
index 2de7c63415..e3591f8e9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst
@@ -49,34 +49,22 @@ Report example
Usage
-----
-To enable UBSAN configure kernel with::
+To enable UBSAN, configure the kernel with::
- CONFIG_UBSAN=y
+ CONFIG_UBSAN=y
-and to check the entire kernel::
-
- CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y
-
-To enable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line
-similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile:
-
-- For a single file (e.g. main.o)::
-
- UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := y
-
-- For all files in one directory::
-
- UBSAN_SANITIZE := y
-
-To exclude files from being instrumented even if
-``CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y``, use::
+To exclude files from being instrumented use::
UBSAN_SANITIZE_main.o := n
-and::
+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