KASAN depends on having access to some of the accounting that SLUB_DEBUG does; without it, there are immediate crashes [1]. So, the natural thing to do is to make KASAN select SLUB_DEBUG.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHmME9rtoPwxUSnktxzKso14iuVCWT7BE_-_8PAC=pgw1ij...@mail.gmail.com Fixes: f9e13c0a5a33 ("slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()") Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]> --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 3d35d062970d..c253c1b46c6b 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN config KASAN bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger" depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB) + select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB select CONSTRUCTORS select STACKDEPOT help -- 2.17.1

