Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since
all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads).

Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
index 7f37a46af574..f4acf9c2e90f 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
 - ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether
   to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on
   invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if
-  ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
+  ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of
+  Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on
+  asynchronously checked accesses (including reads).
 
 Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various
 modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior:
-- 
2.41.0.185.g7c58973941-goog

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:17 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since
> all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads).
>
> Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write")
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> index 7f37a46af574..f4acf9c2e90f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> @@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
>  - ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether
>    to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on
>    invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if
> -  ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
> +  ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of
> +  Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on
> +  asynchronously checked accesses (including reads).
>
>  Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various
>  modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior:
> --
> 2.41.0.185.g7c58973941-goog
>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>