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[PATCH v5 07/15] arch/arm64: don't initialize kasan if it's disabled

From: Baoquan He <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-25 08:15:55
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linux-riscv, linux-s390, linux-um, lkml, loongarch
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kasan, the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Andrey Ryabinin, Linus Torvalds

Here, kasan is disabled if specified 'kasan=off' in kernel cmdline.

And also need skip kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow() if kasan
is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <redacted>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index abeb81bf6ebd..4a58e609c81b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ void __init kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(void *start, unsigned long size)
 {
 	unsigned long shadow_start, shadow_end;
 
+	if (!kasan_enabled())
+		return;
+
 	if (!is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(start))
 		return;
 
@@ -397,6 +400,10 @@ void __init kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(void *start, unsigned long size)
 
 void __init kasan_init(void)
 {
+	/* If KASAN is disabled via command line, don't initialize it. */
+	if (kasan_arg_disabled)
+		return;
+
 	kasan_init_shadow();
 	kasan_init_depth();
 	kasan_init_generic();
-- 
2.52.0

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