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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern



On 20.08.2018 20:33, matthew green wrote:
> "Maxime Villard" writes:
>> Module Name:	src
>> Committed By:	maxv
>> Date:		Mon Aug 20 11:35:28 UTC 2018
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> 	src/sys/kern: files.kern subr_kmem.c
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Retire KMEM_REDZONE and KMEM_POISON.
>>
>> KMEM_REDZONE is not very efficient and cannot detect read overflows. KASAN
>> can, and will be used instead.
> 
> asan requires a 64 bit system, so, i'm not really OK with
> removing this code and requiring kasan.
> 
> please discuss removals like this on tech-kern first.  i'd
> rather this change was reverted.
> 
> 

In general ASan can work with 32-bit kernels. We hava a userland i386
ASan version too.

> .mrg.
> 


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