On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

To avoid false positive reports in kernel address sanitizer krealloc/kzfree
functions shouldn't be instrumented. Since we want to instrument other
functions in mm/util.c, krealloc/kzfree moved to slab_common.c which is not
instrumented.

Unfortunately we can't completely disable instrumentation for one function.
We could disable compiler's instrumentation for one function by using
__atribute__((no_sanitize_address)).
But the problem here is that memset call will be replaced by instumented
version kasan_memset since currently it's implemented as define:

Looks good to me and useful regardless of the sanitizer going in.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <redacted>