On 07/09/2014 04:00 AM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 
> Address sanitizer dedicates 1/8 of the low memory to the shadow memory and 
> uses direct
> mapping with a scale and offset to translate a memory address to its 
> corresponding
> shadow address.
> 
> Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address:
> 
>      unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr)
>      {
>               return ((addr) >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)
>                            + kasan_shadow_start - (PAGE_OFFSET >> 
> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT);
>      }
> 
> where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3.
> 

How does that work when memory is sparsely populated?

        -hpa

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