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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst index 58a0a5fa1ddc..fdf04e741ea5 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ A typical out-of-bounds access looks like this:: The header of the report provides a short summary of the function involved in the access. It is followed by more detailed information about the access and -its origin. Note that, real kernel addresses are only shown for -``CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y`` builds. +its origin. Note that, real kernel addresses are only shown when using the +kernel command line option ``no_hash_pointers``. Use-after-free accesses are reported as:: @@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ invalidly written bytes (offset from the address) are shown; in this representation, '.' denote untouched bytes. In the example above ``0xac`` is the value written to the invalid address at offset 0, and the remaining '.' denote that no following bytes have been touched. Note that, real values are -only shown for ``CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y`` builds; to avoid information -disclosure for non-debug builds, '!' is used instead to denote invalidly +only shown if the kernel was booted with ``no_hash_pointers``; to avoid +information disclosure otherwise, '!' is used instead to denote invalidly written bytes. And finally, KFENCE may also report on invalid accesses to any protected page |