Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] mm/kasan: add document into kernel-parameters.txt

[Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>]

Hi Baoquan,

On 2026-02-25 2:14 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> And also remove the relevant description in dev-tools/kasan.rst
> which is hw_tags specificially.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst               | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index cb850e5290c2..e0115fad9e60 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2899,6 +2899,10 @@ Kernel parameters
>  	js=		[HW,JOY] Analog joystick
>  			See Documentation/input/joydev/joystick.rst.
>  
> +	kasan=		[KNL] controls whether KASAN is enabled.
> +			Format: off | on
> +			default: on
> +
>  	kasan_multi_shot
>  			[KNL] Enforce KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) to print
>  			report on every invalid memory access. Without this
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> index a034700da7c4..eaae83fcb5e4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> @@ -129,8 +129,6 @@ Hardware Tag-Based KASAN mode is intended for use in production as a security
>  mitigation. Therefore, it supports additional boot parameters that allow
>  disabling KASAN altogether or controlling its features:

The sentence above is now incorrect as well. I would recommend documenting the
parameter earlier in the "Boot parameters" section instead of removing it from
this document entirely.

Regards,
Samuel

>  
> -- ``kasan=off`` or ``=on`` controls whether KASAN is enabled (default: ``on``).
> -
>  - ``kasan.mode=sync``, ``=async`` or ``=asymm`` controls whether KASAN
>    is configured in synchronous, asynchronous or asymmetric mode of
>    execution (default: ``sync``).