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    mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y · 89d3c87e
    Andrey Ryabinin authored
    
    
    It's recommended to have slub's user tracking enabled with CONFIG_KASAN,
    because:
    
    a) User tracking disables slab merging which improves
        detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
    b) User tracking metadata acts as redzone which also improves
        detecting out-of-bounds accesses.
    c) User tracking provides additional information about object.
        This information helps to understand bugs.
    
    Currently it is not enabled by default.  Besides recompiling the kernel
    with KASAN and reinstalling it, user also have to change the boot cmdline,
    which is not very handy.
    
    Enable slub user tracking by default with KASAN=y, since there is no good
    reason to not do this.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: little fixes, per David]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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