On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 08:05:33PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > ARM64 has asm implementations of memchr(), memcmp(), str[r]chr(), > str[n]cmp(), str[n]len(). KASAN don't see memory accesses in asm > code, thus it can potentially miss many bugs. > > Ifdef out __HAVE_ARCH_* defines of these functions when KASAN is > enabled, so the generic implementations from lib/string.c will be used. > > Declare asm functions as weak instead of removing them because they > still can be used by efistub.
I don't understand this bit: efistub uses the __pi_ prefixed versions of the routines, so why do we need to declare them as weak? Will