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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:38:22 GMT
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 777a0f30b3 - main - developers-handbook/kerneldebug: Document KASAN and KMSAN
Message-ID:  <202108182138.17ILcMvO027579@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by markj (src committer):

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=777a0f30b349615db6feba4b48383dc1723e22e7

commit 777a0f30b349615db6feba4b48383dc1723e22e7
Author:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-07-13 21:32:19 +0000
Commit:     Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-08-18 21:37:21 +0000

    developers-handbook/kerneldebug: Document KASAN and KMSAN
    
    Reviewed by:    allanjude, ceri, imp
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31166
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 .../content/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/_index.adoc        | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/_index.adoc
index 817ef1f7de..5385ac1426 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/_index.adoc
@@ -827,3 +827,5 @@ This section provides a brief glossary of compile-time kernel options used for d
 * `options DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS`: track lock acquisition points for lockmgr/vnode locks, expanding the amount of information displayed by `show lockedvnods` in DDB. This option has a measurable performance impact.
 * `options DEBUG_MEMGUARD`: a replacement for the man:malloc[9] kernel memory allocator that uses the VM system to detect reads or writes from allocated memory after free. Details may be found in man:memguard[9]. This option has a significant performance impact, but can be very helpful in debugging kernel memory corruption bugs.
 * `options DIAGNOSTIC`: enable additional, more expensive diagnostic tests along the lines of `options INVARIANTS`.
+* `options KASAN`: enable the Kernel Address Sanitizer. This enables compiler instrumentation which can be used to detect invalid memory accesses in the kernel, such as use-after-frees and buffer overflows. This largely supersedes `options DEBUG_MEMGUARD`. See man:kasan[9] for details, and for the currently supported platforms.
+* `options KMSAN`: enable the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. This enables compiler instrumentation which can be used to detect uses of uninitialized memory. See man:kmsan[9] for details, and for the currently supported platforms.



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